Subj : Re: File echoes as passthru?
To   : All
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Sun Dec 22 2024 18:38:05

 > Sorry I posted this in the wrong echo the first time.

 > With a message echo, you can set those as passthru and the message is not
 > stored on your system.

 > With a file echo, doesn't the file have to be stored *somewhere* in order
 > for the subscribing nodes to pick it up and, once every node that is
 > subscribed has picked it up, doesn't it still just sit on your system?

 > A network I am in has added a file echo that could contain large files that
 > I don't want to keep beyond the point where any downlinks have picked the
 > file up, but I am not certain there is a way to automate such a process.

 > I know if the files exist in that nodes outbox, they get deleted, but I am
 > pretty sure that is not how file echo attaches work (i.e. they are not
 > stored in the outboxes of individual nodes).

This actually turned out to be pretty easy.

I did some poking around on the synchro.net wiki page.  It had been a while
since I had added a file area so I forgot that you can set retention periods.
So, the solution for passthru file echoes in synchronet is to tell tickit that
I
*do* want to save it to a file area, and then set that file area up with a
retention of a month.

Then just add the delfiles utility to a nightly script.

Viola.  :D

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