I have a secondary Fidonet node set up for portable use and just to have a bit of fun with the
settings. I am using OUTBOUND fileboxes for most all my links. Binkd sends these mail bundles out
without issue. I also have my aforementioned node (along with several points for othernets) to use an
inbound filebox. This, however, is not working:

SBBSecho v3.01-Linux (rev 3.36) - Synchronet FidoNet EchoMail Tosser

Loading configuration files from /bbs/sbbs/ctrl/
SBBSecho 3.01-Linux r3.36 Jul 9 2017 GCC 4.9.2 invoked with options: -cemtq
7 packers, 44 linked-nodes, 12 echolists configured
Reading ../data/areas.bbs
Read 620 areas from ../data/areas.bbs
Reading bad area file: ../data/badareas.lst
Read 0 areas from ../data/badareas.lst

Scanning /wd/bbs/sbbs/temp/sbbsecho/ for Stray Outbound Packets...

Scanning for Inbound Packets...
Scanning 314:314/0 inbox: /bbs/mail/in/314-314-0
Scanning 1:214/24 inbox: /bbs/mail/in/1-214-24
Scanning 1:218/700 inbox: /bbs/mail/in/1-218-700
Scanning 1:214/23 inbox: /bbs/mail/in/1-214-23
Scanning 24:160/23 inbox: /bbs/mail/in/24-160-23
Scanning 618:300/18.23 inbox: /bbs/mail/in/618-300-18.23
Scanning 314:314/45.1 inbox: /bbs/mail/in/314-314-45.1
Scanning secure inbound: /bbs/mail/in/
Scanning non-secure inbound: /bbs/mail/in/unknown/

Scanning for Inbound NetMail Messages...
Writing 0 areas to ../data/badareas.lst
Deleting /bbs/sbbs/ctrl/sbbsecho.bsy (from line 2354)
done

There is currently one mail packet in /bbs/mail/in/1-214-23.

sbbs@bbs:/bbs/mail/in/1-214-23$ ls
925a7a00.mo0

If I move the packet(s) to /bbs/mail/in, they are processed just fine. I have double-checked all the
paths in SBBSECHO.INI:

[node:1:214/23]
Comment = Road Node - Fido
AreafixPwd = SECRET
PacketPwd = SECRET
PacketType = 2+
Archive = ZIP
Inbox = /bbs/mail/in/1-214-23
Outbox = /bbs/mail/out/1-214-23
Passive = false
Direct = false
Notify = true
Keys = A,F,H
Status = Hold


Perhaps someone can spot what I may be missing. Or, perhaps, a "bug".



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On 2017 Aug 14 20:17:40, you wrote to All:

sbbs@bbs:/bbs/mail/in/1-214-23$ ls
925a7a00.mo0

what does ls -la show? i'm thinking of the owner:group but it is a long shot since the same mailer writes the same files for other traffic and they're working...

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Re: SBBSECHO Inbound Fileboxes
By: Ray Quinn to All on Mon Aug 14 2017 08:17 pm

I have a secondary Fidonet node set up for portable use and just to have a bit of fun with the
settings. I am using OUTBOUND fileboxes for most all my links. Binkd sends these mail bundles out
without issue. I also have my aforementioned node (along with several points for othernets) to use an
inbound filebox. This, however, is not working:

SBBSecho v3.01-Linux (rev 3.36) - Synchronet FidoNet EchoMail Tosser

Loading configuration files from /bbs/sbbs/ctrl/
SBBSecho 3.01-Linux r3.36 Jul 9 2017 GCC 4.9.2 invoked with options: -cemtq 7 packers, 44 linked-nodes, 12 echolists configured
Reading ../data/areas.bbs
Read 620 areas from ../data/areas.bbs
Reading bad area file: ../data/badareas.lst
Read 0 areas from ../data/badareas.lst

Scanning /wd/bbs/sbbs/temp/sbbsecho/ for Stray Outbound Packets...

Scanning for Inbound Packets...
Scanning 314:314/0 inbox: /bbs/mail/in/314-314-0
Scanning 1:214/24 inbox: /bbs/mail/in/1-214-24
Scanning 1:218/700 inbox: /bbs/mail/in/1-218-700
Scanning 1:214/23 inbox: /bbs/mail/in/1-214-23
Scanning 24:160/23 inbox: /bbs/mail/in/24-160-23
Scanning 618:300/18.23 inbox: /bbs/mail/in/618-300-18.23
Scanning 314:314/45.1 inbox: /bbs/mail/in/314-314-45.1
Scanning secure inbound: /bbs/mail/in/
Scanning non-secure inbound: /bbs/mail/in/unknown/

Scanning for Inbound NetMail Messages...
Writing 0 areas to ../data/badareas.lst
Deleting /bbs/sbbs/ctrl/sbbsecho.bsy (from line 2354)
done

There is currently one mail packet in /bbs/mail/in/1-214-23.

sbbs@bbs:/bbs/mail/in/1-214-23$ ls
925a7a00.mo0

That's actually a bundle (archive) not a packet. But SBBSecho should discover and unpack that bundle just fine, even if it's in an inbox. Can you search your sbbsecho.log file for any errors (perhaps unpacking errors) with regards to that bundle filename?

If I move the packet(s) to /bbs/mail/in, they are processed just fine.

That is odd. Looking at the code, I see nothing obvious. Do other inboxes work correctly? Can you search your sbbsecho.log file for the string 'Unpacking bundle' and see if you find success or failures unpacking bundles in inboxes?

Thanks,

digital man

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On 2017 Aug 14 20:17:40, you wrote to All:

sbbs@bbs:/bbs/mail/in/1-214-23$ ls
925a7a00.mo0

what does ls -la show? i'm thinking of the owner:group but it is a long shot since the same mailer writes the same files for other traffic and they're working...

sbbs@bbs:/bbs/mail/in/1-214-23$ ls -la
total 40
drwxrwxr-x 2 sbbs sbbs 4096 Aug 14 19:19 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 sbbs sbbs 28672 Aug 15 16:24 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sbbs sbbs 1276 Aug 14 19:19 925a7a00.mo0

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If the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body,
then only left handed people are in their right minds.

_____
, |[][]|
,__| ______| |
,__/__]|| ________ | D8 |
|__!___!!`--'L_______\ |__________|() ___________
"(_)[___]====(_)(_)=| \_(___________)_/__/=(_)===(_)~'

73 de Ray Quinn W6RAY
GMRS WQTX645
Visalia, CA USA DM06ii
When all else fails, ham radio works!
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There is currently one mail packet in /bbs/mail/in/1-214-23.

sbbs@bbs:/bbs/mail/in/1-214-23$ ls
925a7a00.mo0

That's actually a bundle (archive) not a packet.

I knew that, but just typed the wrong word. It was getting late for me and past my bedtime...

But SBBSecho should
discover and unpack that bundle just fine, even if it's in an inbox. Can you search your sbbsecho.log file for any errors (perhaps unpacking errors) with regards to that bundle filename?

sbbs@bbs:/bbs/sbbs/data$ grep 925a7a00.mo0 sbbsecho.log sbbs@bbs:/bbs/sbbs/data$

Nothing found.

If I move the packet(s) to /bbs/mail/in, they are processed just fine.

That is odd. Looking at the code, I see nothing obvious. Do other inboxes work correctly? Can you search your sbbsecho.log file for the string 'Unpacking bundle' and see if you find success or failures unpacking bundles in inboxes?

No other inbound fileboxes have been successfully tossed. Every line, from October 3, 2014 show
/bbs/mail/in/BUNDLE.DAY.

I have tried other systems with the same results. I just now added the inbound fileboxes to
several other systems just to see.

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If the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body,
then only left handed people are in their right minds.

_____
, |[][]|
,__| ______| |
,__/__]|| ________ | D8 |
|__!___!!`--'L_______\ |__________|() ___________
"(_)[___]====(_)(_)=| \_(___________)_/__/=(_)===(_)~'

73 de Ray Quinn W6RAY
GMRS WQTX645
Visalia, CA USA DM06ii
When all else fails, ham radio works!
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That is odd. Looking at the code, I see nothing obvious. Do other inboxes work correctly? Can you search your sbbsecho.log file for the string 'Unpacking bundle' and see if you find success or failures unpacking bundles in inboxes?

No. I can confirm that other inboxes are not working.

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If the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body,
then only left handed people are in their right minds.

_____
, |[][]|
,__| ______| |
,__/__]|| ________ | D8 |
|__!___!!`--'L_______\ |__________|() ___________
"(_)[___]====(_)(_)=| \_(___________)_/__/=(_)===(_)~'

73 de Ray Quinn W6RAY
GMRS WQTX645
Visalia, CA USA DM06ii
When all else fails, ham radio works!
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On 2017 Aug 15 16:30:28, you wrote to me:

what does ls -la show? i'm thinking of the owner:group but it is a long
shot since the same mailer writes the same files for other traffic and
they're working...

sbbs@bbs:/bbs/mail/in/1-214-23$ ls -la
total 40
drwxrwxr-x 2 sbbs sbbs 4096 Aug 14 19:19 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 sbbs sbbs 28672 Aug 15 16:24 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sbbs sbbs 1276 Aug 14 19:19 925a7a00.mo0

so it has the proper owner:group... i was thinking that maybe that one bundle had come in while you were working on getting things set up... when we started,
we used prebuilt packages for the mailer... it was installed with a different owner:group and we had to figure all that out first before being able to get things moving between the mailer and the tosser...

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Re: Re: SBBSECHO Inbound Fileboxes
By: Ray Quinn to Digital Man on Tue Aug 15 2017 05:14 pm

There is currently one mail packet in /bbs/mail/in/1-214-23.

sbbs@bbs:/bbs/mail/in/1-214-23$ ls
925a7a00.mo0

That's actually a bundle (archive) not a packet.

I knew that, but just typed the wrong word. It was getting late for me and past my bedtime...

But SBBSecho should
discover and unpack that bundle just fine, even if it's in an inbox. Can you search your sbbsecho.log file for any errors (perhaps unpacking errors) with regards to that bundle filename?

sbbs@bbs:/bbs/sbbs/data$ grep 925a7a00.mo0 sbbsecho.log sbbs@bbs:/bbs/sbbs/data$

Nothing found.

Interesting. Since you said moving the file to the inbound caused it to be unpacked, I would expect to see log entries for those files you moved and were then successfully unpacked.

Anyway, I think I see the problem: If you add a trailing slash to those inbox paths in your sbbsecho.ini, does that fix the problem?

digital man

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On 2017 Aug 15 16:30:28, you wrote to me:

what does ls -la show? i'm thinking of the owner:group but it is a long
shot since the same mailer writes the same files for other traffic and
they're working...

sbbs@bbs:/bbs/mail/in/1-214-23$ ls -la
total 40
drwxrwxr-x 2 sbbs sbbs 4096 Aug 14 19:19 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 sbbs sbbs 28672 Aug 15 16:24 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sbbs sbbs 1276 Aug 14 19:19 925a7a00.mo0

so it has the proper owner:group... i was thinking that maybe that one bundle had come in while you were working on getting things set up... when we started,
we used prebuilt packages for the mailer... it was installed with a different owner:group and we had to figure all that out first before being able to get things moving between the mailer and the tosser...

Yeah, everything related to the BBS, htick, binkd, etc., runs under the same non-root
user:group.

It was a good thing to check, just to make sure. Thanks!

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If the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body,
then only left handed people are in their right minds.

_____
, |[][]|
,__| ______| |
,__/__]|| ________ | D8 |
|__!___!!`--'L_______\ |__________|() ___________
"(_)[___]====(_)(_)=| \_(___________)_/__/=(_)===(_)~'

73 de Ray Quinn W6RAY
GMRS WQTX645
Visalia, CA USA DM06ii
When all else fails, ham radio works!
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Re: Re: SBBSECHO Inbound Fileboxes
By: Ray Quinn to Digital Man on Tue Aug 15 2017 05:14 pm

There is currently one mail packet in /bbs/mail/in/1-214-23.

sbbs@bbs:/bbs/mail/in/1-214-23$ ls
925a7a00.mo0

That's actually a bundle (archive) not a packet.

I knew that, but just typed the wrong word. It was getting late for me and past my bedtime...

But SBBSecho should
discover and unpack that bundle just fine, even if it's in an inbox. Can you search your sbbsecho.log file for any errors (perhaps unpacking errors) with regards to that bundle filename?

sbbs@bbs:/bbs/sbbs/data$ grep 925a7a00.mo0 sbbsecho.log sbbs@bbs:/bbs/sbbs/data$

Nothing found.

Interesting. Since you said moving the file to the inbound caused it to be unpacked, I would expect to see log entries for those files you moved and were then successfully unpacked.

Anyway, I think I see the problem: If you add a trailing slash to those inbox paths in your sbbsecho.ini, does that fix the problem?

That seems to be it. Here is the related log entry:

2017-08-16 17:40:53 Unpacking bundle: /bbs/mail/in/1-214-23/925a7a00.mo0 (1.2KB)
2017-08-16 17:40:53 Executing: unzip -ojC /bbs/mail/in/1-214-23/925a7a00.mo0 -d /bbs/mail/in/1-214-23/
2017-08-16 17:40:53 Deleting /bbs/mail/in/1-214-23/925a7a00.mo0 (from line 2117)
2017-08-16 17:40:53 Importing /bbs/mail/in/1-214-23/925a7500.pkt (Type 2e, 2.2KB) from 1:214/23 to 1:214/22
2017-08-16 17:40:53 Deleting /bbs/mail/in/1-214-23/925a7500.pkt (from line 5002)

I never thought of the trailing slash. Now more testing to confirm.

Thanks!!


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If the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body,
then only left handed people are in their right minds.

_____
, |[][]|
,__| ______| |
,__/__]|| ________ | D8 |
|__!___!!`--'L_______\ |__________|() ___________
"(_)[___]====(_)(_)=| \_(___________)_/__/=(_)===(_)~'

73 de Ray Quinn W6RAY
GMRS WQTX645
Visalia, CA USA DM06ii
When all else fails, ham radio works!
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Re: Re: SBBSECHO Inbound Fileboxes
By: Ray Quinn to Digital Man on Wed Aug 16 2017 05:46 pm

Anyway, I think I see the problem: If you add a trailing slash to those inbox paths in your sbbsecho.ini, does that fix the problem?

That seems to be it. Here is the related log entry:

Thank you for the bug report!

digital man

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16 Aug 17 20:50, you wrote to me:

Thank you for the bug report!

I wasn't sure what it was. But either way, you are welcome. More importantly, thank you all for maintaining a free software.

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