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  • Files Received emails?

    From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to All on Sat Jan 25 08:54:11 2014

    All,

    I tried using TinyTIC to create a list of files received on my BBS, then used a head/footer to create an email, and posted that email to a echo using a text file posting utility. Then I hand off to ALLFIX, based on a help file I found.

    I see lots of other people posting automated reports using TinyTIC that look like they came from ALLFIX.

    I get the allfiles listing and the email, and the files are copied to my directories - but ALLFIX doesn't pass the files onto my downstream links.

    Is there someway instead to tell ALLFIX to create a text listing of files received that I could use for an announcement email? Or some way to get TinyTIC to report on files received but leave them in my inbound so ALLFIX can process them further?

    Thanks!

    --kW
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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.71 to Kurt Weiske on Sun Jan 26 12:49:33 2014

    On Sat, 25 Jan 2014, Kurt Weiske wrote to All:

    Is there someway instead to tell ALLFIX to create a text listing of
    files received that I could use for an announcement email?

    allfix announce

    it keeps up with everything it processes and will create announcement messages in several different formats... even PKT, IIRC...

    you configure what file areas are announced in what mail areas... i have nodelist and nodediff being announced in at least three areas along with the main announcement posted in public areas...

    you definitely should not have to process with two different TIC processors...

    )\/(ark

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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to mark lewis on Mon Jan 27 08:16:12 2014
    Re: Files Received emails?
    By: mark lewis to Kurt Weiske on Sun Jan 26 2014 12:49 pm

    Is there someway instead to tell ALLFIX to create a text listing of
    files received that I could use for an announcement email?

    allfix announce

    Completely unsure how I missed that -- thanks! Looking into it now.
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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to mark lewis on Fri Jan 31 08:30:37 2014
    Re: Files Received emails?
    By: Kurt Weiske to mark lewis on Mon Jan 27 2014 08:16 am

    allfix announce

    Mark, thanks again for the pointer. I have another question I was hoping you or someone else could answer, as I've been playing around with ALLFIX to no avail.

    I'm running Synchronet. With regards to report format, you can select Hudson. PKT, *.MSG, Ezycom, Jam, Squish, and others. I've played with PKT and *.MSG to get a packet that SBBSecho will import into one of my file echoes, but to no avail.

    I use SMBUTIL to import other log files in text format into Synchronet's message bases, and it works well. Is there any way to get ALLFIX to output a report in text format only? Or a way to get its' reports into a Synchronet message base that I've missed?

    Thanks!

    --k
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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.71 to Kurt Weiske on Fri Jan 31 14:19:54 2014

    On Fri, 31 Jan 2014, Kurt Weiske wrote to mark lewis:

    allfix announce

    Mark, thanks again for the pointer.

    you are welcome... it is exactly what is used to announce new files that have been processed...

    I have another question I was hoping you or someone else could
    answer, as I've been playing around with ALLFIX to no avail.

    I'm running Synchronet. With regards to report format, you can
    select Hudson. PKT, *.MSG, Ezycom, Jam, Squish, and others. I've
    played with PKT and *.MSG to get a packet that SBBSecho will import
    into one of my file echoes, but to no avail.

    you should be able to use PKT and simply have your sbbsecho toss them... most traditional FTN systems have several directories related to mail tossing... one
    of them is known as the "secure" area where only truly known secure pkts are placed for tossing... this is NOT the same directory as the secure inbound from
    the mailer... this particular secure or trusted directory holds PKTs that you absolutely know where they were created... PKTs like those created by your allfix announce... you would tell allfix to put the PKTs in that secure directory and then the tosser will toss them...

    perhaps sbbsecho has some method to import/toss posts in PKTs that are from one of its addresses?? or possibly you can set allfix up with a point address which sbbsecho will then import the reports from the PKTs??

    I use SMBUTIL to import other log files in text format into
    Synchronet's message bases, and it works well. Is there any way to
    get ALLFIX to output a report in text format only? Or a way to get
    its' reports into a Synchronet message base that I've missed?

    one other possibility, which is quite twisted, would be to have allfix write to
    some other message base and then you would use a tool to extract those messages
    to a text file which you might then have smbutil import... what OS are you running this on? as said, this is very twisted and extreme contortions like this should not be necessary...

    )\/(ark

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