Subj : Truncated packets, etc.
To   : Joe Delahaye
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu May 12 2016 14:55:00

  Re: Truncated packets, etc.
  By: Joe Delahaye to Digital Man on Thu May 12 2016 01:54 pm

 >   Re: Truncated packets, etc.
 >   By: Digital Man to Joe Delahaye on Thu May 12 2016 00:37:00
 >
 >  >> I now truncate (I think I have the right terminology) all of my
 >  >> outgoing mail.  I am ending up with hundreds of 0 byte files in my
 >  >> outbound.  I thought they were supposed to disappear after 24 hours?
 >  >> Am I missing something here?
 >
 >  DM> That's true of bundle files, but not packets. Can you give an example
 >  DM> of the 0-byte filenames (and the corresponding date/time stamps)?
 >
 >  DM> In either case, we either have a bug to fix a feature to implement, so
 >  DM> let me know.
 >
 >
 > Since I go thru the directory once in a while and remove, I thinks these are
 > the earliest examples.
 >
 > 05/06/2016  00:01                 0 0000005f.FR0
 > 05/06/2016  00:02                 0 0000005f.FR1
 > 05/06/2016  00:07                 0 0000005f.FR2
 > 05/06/2016  00:12                 0 0000005f.FR3
 > 05/06/2016  01:03                 0 0000005f.FR4

Old 0-byte bundles are deleted when a new bundle is created with with the same
2-character day code. So those 0-byte files above would not be deleted until a
new 000000005f.fr* bundle was to be created, which would not be until
5/13/2016. If you have 0-byte bundle files older than a week old, let me know.

 > I am also getting stuff like this though.
 >
 > 04/01/2016  09:23            14,166 01092348.pkt **
 > 04/01/2016  09:28               963 01092849.pkt
 > 04/01/2016  09:43               929 01094350.pkt
 > 04/01/2016  09:43               929 01094351.pkt
 > 04/01/2016  09:48               534 01094851.pkt
 > 04/01/2016  09:48               534 01094852.pkt
 > 04/01/2016  09:58             1,391 01095853.pkt
 > 04/01/2016  09:58             1,391 01095854.pkt
 >
 > These normally get added to  a bundle and deleted I would think.

What directory are those *.pkt files in? Have you looked at the packet headers
(e.g. with pktdump.exe) to see who they are addressed to?

 > **  I checked this pkt, and it was created here for one of my downlinks, who
 > get archived mail, thus a bundle.  That would have been an #########.fr#

"FR?" is an extension just for bundles created on a Friday. Anyway, let me know
which directory those .pkt files are sitting in and I'll have a clue as to why
they weren't bundled and deleted.

                                            digital man

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