Problems with aborted souper email downloads

From: Michael Raiteri (mraiteri@dyson.brisnet.org.au)
Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 12:16:08 +1100

I posted a message some time ago about why when if I drop carrier
durinbg a newsgroup download with souper an areas file was still
generated and import -u imported it into yarn, however if the
same siituation arose with email i was left with a 000000.msg
file.

I received several replies which all worked in their own way but
I wanted to automate it so that an aborted email download with
souper would still be imported into yarn regardless.

Well I seem to have found an answer.

I got/created an areas file and placed it in a directory on its own
and I included a couple of lines to my getmail.bat file

It now reads

@echo off
e:
cd \yarn\temp
del areas*.*
SET HOME=E:\HOME
SET YARN=E:\YARN
SET NNTPSERVER=news.brisnet.org.au
souper -n mail.dyson.brisnet.org.au mraiteri password
SET COPYCMD=/Y
copy e:\online\areas*.* e:\yarn\temp
import -u

Well it seems to work for me. No more forgetting that I have an
aborted download and starting again only to overwrite the original
one and lose it.

Cheers
Mike

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