Hi guys,

Wonder if anyone has seen this behaviour before... When I send a netmail to areafix at my own hub, I can see the message coming in, echomail.in semaphore is created, and then mutil does the necessary, then I can see the files get created to send back to me however mystic at the hub won't create the echomail.out semaphore file.

If I "touch echomail.out" (creates an empty file in linux), mystic catches
that and starts the sending process fine, but for some reason it just won't create the semaphore. I waited 10 minutes or so before issuing the "touch echomail.out" command, just in case it's somehow delayed.

Help gratefully appreciated.

Best regards,
Christian

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then I can see the files get created to send back to me however mystic
at the hub won't create the echomail.out semaphore file.

My echoin script always does an echout (mutil echout.ini | fidopoll send) so I inadvertently prevent your problem. Might try that?


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Re: echomail.out semaphore not getting created
By: MeaTLoTioN to All on Sun Sep 16 2018 10:16 pm

Wonder if anyone has seen this behaviour before... When I send a netmail to areafix at my own hub, I can see the message coming in, echomail.in semaphore is created, and then mutil does the necessary, then I can see the files get created to send back to me however mystic at the hub won't create the echomail.out semaphore file.

When I ran Mystic I had a send command in the event that tosses incomming mail just in case there was new echomail/netmail to be sent after a toss.

something like "mutil import|./fidopoll send" in the event.

Ttyl :-),
Al


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Re: echomail.out semaphore not getting created
By: Al to MeaTLoTioN on Sun Sep 16 2018 02:36 pm

something like "mutil import|./fidopoll send" in the event.

On linux that should be "./mutil import|./fidopoll send". :)

Ttyl :-),
Al


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ok I did my own work around based on the suggestions I have had back...

In mystic root folder, created a file called tsend, contents are

#!/bin/bash
touch semaphore/echomail.out


Then I made it executable;

chmod +x tsend


then in my events viewer, modified the mailin event to run this

./mutil mailin.ini|./tsend

Now whenever it gets mail in, it will automatically create the semaphore, and then process it within a few seconds, if there's mail to go out, it will send it, if not, it just deleted the semaphore.

I think I'd rather just create the semaphore than try and use fidopoll just because to me it's neater and follows the right process, be that as it may, whatever works, right?

Thanks guys for your suggestions, got it solved very quickly.

Best regards,
Christian.

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On 09/16/18, MeaTLoTioN pondered and said...

Now whenever it gets mail in, it will automatically create the
semaphore, and then process it within a few seconds, if there's mail to
go out, it will send it, if not, it just deleted the semaphore.

I think I'd rather just create the semaphore than try and use fidopoll just because to me it's neater and follows the right process, be that as it may, whatever works, right?

I think you are over thinking it. Leave Mystic to create the semaphores. Just add fidopoll send to the shell line when you run mutil to process incoming echomail and netmail.

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