[Dxspider-support] File forwarding and other questions

[Bob]

Charlie I have bin link to w1hr for 3 or 4 days and have not got Bulletin or
p msg from w1hr
. Before the upgrade I would get them . ?  73 Bob kc2cwt   Dxnode kc2cwt-9
----- Original Message -----
From: "charlie carroll" <k1xx at rindge.nh.ultranet.com>
To: <dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 9:51 AM
Subject: [Dxspider-support] File forwarding and other questions


> Is file forwarding working, or even supposed to work?  We are not seeing
> the files associated with W1AW BULLETIN mail being forwarded.  The files
> come into my W1HR Spider node from my K1XX AK1A node.  However, the
> files are not being forwarded to downstream Spider nodes.
>
> The forward.pl file contains the following line.
>
> #
> # Currently only type B msgs are affected by this code.
> #
>
> It's unclear whether the files are supposed to even be forwarding now?
> If they are supposed to be, what would prevent them from automatically
> forwarding.  And, is there a way to check how/when a file has forwarded?
>
> Second question...
> It seems that personal mail is not forwarding unless the recipient is
> logged into the cluster.  Often times we have users who log in for very
> short periods of time.  Their mail will sit on a node until it's queued
> and sent.  Wouldn't it be better to forward personal mail to their home
> node regardless of whether the user is logged in or not?  That way the
> mail is waiting for them when they log in, regardless of the duration of
> the log in.
>
> Third question...
> Are the callsigns W1HR and W1HR-1 treated as identical?
>
> 73 charlie, k1xx
>
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