Subj : Script to process fidomail
To   : Sean Rima
From : Alan Ianson
Date : Fri Aug 26 2022 03:49 pm

-=> Sean Rima wrote to Alan Ianson <=-

 AI> Are you having an issue with the APOD area? I sometimes get an issue
 AI> like that with the epod area myself. I have been considering renaming
 AI> the files hatched in fsxNet with a different filename. If I know others
 AI> had issues I would do that for the apod hatches.

 SR> Yeah that's the issue I am hitting. I have put it onto a every 1 minute
 SR> process to get around it, so far so good. It just happens that
 SR> sometimes, that both send me the same file almost at the same time

OK, I have renamed slightly the files going into FSX_IMGE so that shouldn't happen anymore for that area.

 SR> I have been using a basic script. Maybe I will push the boundary of my
 SR> shell scripting :)

Mine is also very basic. I have been meaning to beef it up for years but I haven't gotten to it yet. ;)

My script has a test for usermail.flg and if found runs a mail scan. Something similar could be done based on gotmail.flg that is created on received mail. I'll include it below.

#!/bin/sh
# This script will toss incoming mail and files

export TZUTC="-0700"
export TZ="PDT+7"

cd /bbbs
../bbbs bogus w >/dev/null 2>&1
../bbbs btick >/dev/null 2>&1
../bbbs bfilsort >/dev/null 2>&1
../bbbs bfileidx >/dev/null 2>&1
touch /bbbs/work/rescan.2

# outgoing mail

if [ -f /bbbs/work/usermail.flg ]; then
    rm -f /bbbs/work/usermail.flg
    cd /bbbs
    ./bbbs bogus r > /dev/null 2>&1
    touch /bbbs/work/rescan.2
fi


The above is my mailin.sh script.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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