====== The Mailer Monitor ======

Watch FidoNet-style mail sessions as they happen. There are two views of the same data.

===== The tile =====

The **Mailer Monitor** tile is hidden at first. Turn it on under **View**.

{{ :v4:images:dispatch-mailer-tile.png?900 |The Mailer Monitor tile}}
//Figure 1. The Mailer Monitor tile, after four calls. The remote sysop's name and a session key have been blurred.//

The top right of the tile says how many lines are busy and gives today's totals, for example "0 of 4 lines busy" and "Today: 120 sessions, sent 0 B, received 77 KB". The **Open window** button opens the classic window described below. The tile has four tabs:

^ Tab ^ Shows ^
| **Lines** | One row for each mailer line (M1, M2 and so on), with the columns **State**, **Remote system**, **File**, **Progress**, **Bytes**, **Speed** and **Time**. The bar and speed move while a file is on its way. A line that sends and receives at once gets a second row. Click a row to select it; the log of that line appears under the table. Right-click a busy row for **View Connection Window** or **Disconnect**. |
| **Log** | The mailer log. |
| **History** | Finished calls, the last 500. |
| **Outbound** | The queue for each uplink, its last session and its status. |

A line shows **Done** or **Failed** for 20 seconds after a call. Many BinkP calls last less than a second, so the History tab is the place to see quick calls.

===== The window =====

**View > Mailer Monitor Window**, or **Open window** on the tile, opens the classic mailer screen: a line selector, a **Session** box (status, remote system, address, sysop, location, software, link, time), a **Today** box, a **Transfer** box with Transmit and Receive bars, the files in this session and the log. Both views follow the same selected line.

{{ :v4:images:dispatch-mailer-monitor.png?900 |The Mailer Monitor window}}
//Figure 2. The Mailer Monitor window.//

When you select a line, its log appears. It shows what the other system announced (its name, its sysop, the software, its addresses), whether the session was secure and a password was verified, and how many files were sent and received.

===== Good to know =====

  * Today's totals survive a restart. The history is kept in ''Configs\PBDASH.MLH''.
  * The bars need the current PBMailer. An older one writes no progress, and the line shows **Starting** with no bar.
  * Polling and answering are described on [[v4:mail:fidonet|FidoNet mail]].