Hello Paul,

On Sun, 18 Dec 2016 10:35:32 +1000, Paul Quinn -> Nicholas Boel wrote:

 NB>> Thanks for the info, Paul!

 PQ> Nup.  My bad.  I'd forgotten what I had done, and I got it mixed up with
 PQ> Golded's config.  I configured JamNNTPd to use the -echomailjam option
 PQ> to set a generic semaphore which is the target of a cron job.

I'm fairly certain I still got the information I needed to continue.

As of right now, I'm just running a wrapper script that runs my newsreader,
then when the newsreader exits the script looks for echomail.jam, and if
present, continues to run my tosser - and it is also currently scanning all
areas.

I didn't originally want to do it this way, but at the moment is the only
option. It seems when I try to run echomailjam2hpt.pl to convert echomail.jam
to echotoss.log format so HPT can read it, the perl script searches my
fidoconfig areas file but doesn't seem to be able to find the area, or is not
reading it properly, so it's currently not working like I want it to. It's
working at the moment, but not as lightweight as I wanted.. yet.

 PQ> I beg a thousand pardons.

No need to apologize. I'm currently doing it (basically) the same way. While it
 still works, it could be fine tuned just a little bit better once I figure out
 why the perl script isn't working like it should.

 PQ> FWIW, the data in the semaphore is as documented for JamNNTPd.  It
 PQ> would/could serve for both netmail & echomail... like Tommi said.

Yep, I've noticed this now. Although I'm not actually making any use of the
contents of echomail.jam currently, since I'm basically only searching for it,
and if it exists, running the tosser and scanning through every area rather
than only the specific ones contained in the file. 

Regards,
Nick

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