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#89 Mailfor Beacon -> Flat file
I would like to make a feature request (not sure if this is the pace to do it). That is to have the MAILFOR beacon also write to a flat file, and then overwrite it with every new beacon. This would make it very easy to program the Raspberry Pi to flash an LED to alert the sysop/host that there is personal mail awaiting them.
I could possibly look for the object code in the source directory, and patch it too. But would be nice as a feature for all to use.
I'll have some thoughts about this one. The idea of doing some kind of alerting / notification for sysop's personal mail is good. But I think the suggested method, (over)writing the beacon to a flat file, is not the preferenced method to do so.
Having a Raspberry Pi to flash a LED when there's personal mail awaiting for the sysop is already relatively easily possible by using (reading and parsing) the message database (dirmes.sys) with an external script or executable scheduled. Just make sure you DON'T write/alter that file to prevent message database corruption.
You can take the the sysop's callsign from LinFBB's own config (fbb.conf) for example, message type 'P' and status 'N' and there you go.... Or make it just configurable if you wan't to notify on more or other message-based conditions.