incornations of my HMB to prove that! :D The biggest weakness of the
HMB was a 16M size limit for the _entire_ messagebase. When your messagebase has close to 200 echos (plus netmail), and many of those
areas are fairly active, it makes the messagebase very susceptible to being overloaded. Once you break the 16M limit, ugly things happen,
like everything gets scrambled, and weird crossposts happen!
When you say crosspost, what is that?
I'm using qwk packs and offline readers as a bbs user, and I'm seeing errors on many of the messages in the qwk packs. I'm using multimail 0.52, and terminate 5.0's mail reader. Both systems behave differently.
Things just looked mangled.
On 01-05-21 21:06, bbsing wrote to Vk3jed <=-
On 27 Feb 2020 at 02:34p, Vk3jed pondered and said...
incornations of my HMB to prove that! :D The biggest weakness of the
HMB was a 16M size limit for the _entire_ messagebase. When your messagebase has close to 200 echos (plus netmail), and many of those
areas are fairly active, it makes the messagebase very susceptible to being overloaded. Once you break the 16M limit, ugly things happen,
like everything gets scrambled, and weird crossposts happen!
Hi Vk3jed,
When you say crosspost, what is that?
I'm using qwk packs and offline readers as a bbs user, and I'm seeing errors on many of the messages in the qwk packs. I'm using multimail
0.52, and terminate 5.0's mail reader. Both systems behave differently.
Multimail shows the message count for an area, but the area index has
many messages that have error 0 message for the message line.
In Terminate's (old dos program) the messages from field looks missing
and the messages body runs through the from, and subject. Each message looks to contain several messages.
Things just looked mangled.
I'm using qwk packs and offline readers as a bbs user, and I'mseeing errors on many of the messages in the qwk packs. I'm using
Hmm, I don't recognise any of the symptoms you're describing. :( When I had a corrupt messagebase, I could still download messages into Bluewave (that's what I used back then), but they were all in the wrong areas, almost randomaly scattered throughout the messagebase. Only fix was to delete the messagebase and start again. I can't recall if multiple message
On 01-05-21 08:46, Bob Roberts wrote to Vk3jed <=-
It could be something to do with the QWK export settings from the
hosting BBS. Perhaps a missing CONTROL.DAT or incorrect QWKE setting?
Multimail should support QWKE just fine. Not sure about Terminate.
Back when I used Terminate it was just a comm program.
I'd give anything to have your skill set and move to redoing the old source code to Renegade or Virtual Advance 5.0 source code.
On 01-05-21 21:06, bbsing wrote to Vk3jed <=-
When you say crosspost, what is that?
I'm using qwk packs and offline readers as a bbs user, and I'm seeing errors on many of the messages in the qwk packs. I'm using multimail
0.52, and terminate 5.0's mail reader. Both systems behave differently.
Multimail shows the message count for an area, but the area index has
many messages that have error 0 message for the message line.
In Terminate's (old dos program) the messages from field looks missing
and the messages body runs through the from, and subject. Each message looks to contain several messages.
Things just looked mangled.
On 01-05-21 08:46, Bob Roberts wrote to Vk3jed <=-
It could be something to do with the QWK export settings from the
hosting BBS. Perhaps a missing CONTROL.DAT or incorrect QWKE setting?
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