Hello All!

I have been setting up proboard bbs with hpt and was having trouble getting all the message bases into the bbs areas, some of you said to try 8+3 name scheme so I did that, I changed it in the bbs for each area as well as in hpt config. Now most (not all) mail ends up in the bad area saying something is corrupt about it..

U 07:08:07 dupe.c::dupeDetection() end nRet = 1

U 07:08:07 carbonCopy() begin

U 07:08:07 carbonCopy() rc=0

Z 07:08:07 ..\src\toss.c:232 opening \pb\msgbase\fido\BBS_PROM

A 07:08:07 Could not open/create EchoArea \pb\msgbase\fido\BBS_PROM!

Z 07:08:07 ..\src\toss.c:372 end rc=0

U 07:08:07 ..\src\toss.c::processEMMsg() rc=0

U 07:08:07 toss.c::processMsg() rc=0

U 07:08:07 putMsgInBadArea() begin

J 07:08:07 Badmail reason: MSGAPIERR: Invalid or corrupted file (AREA: BBS_PROM

OTION)

Not sure what is happening, this is a new issue since changing the saved echo mail to 8+3 naming

Regards,

Rick

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Hello Rick!

30 Sep 23, Rick Smith wrote to All:

area as well as in hpt config. Now most (not all) mail ends up in the
bad area saying something is corrupt about it..

What is the difference for those areas that work?

Regards

Kai

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Hello Rick!

30 Sep 23, Rick Smith wrote to All:

area as well as in hpt config. Now most (not all)

mail ends up in the

bad area saying something is corrupt about it..

What is the difference for those areas that work?

I have not verified all but the seem like areas that I did not have to shorten, for instance like BINKD and areas with similarly shorter names..

Rick

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Hello Rick!

02 Oct 23, Rick Smith wrote to Kai Richter:

What is the difference for those areas that work?

I have not verified all but the seem like areas that I did not have
to shorten, for instance like BINKD and areas with similarly shorter names..

I don't know if there is any fileformat conversion with the -dosfile parameter.

Once I had issues if a third party programm created a squish echoarea file. When the sqd was created by squish the third party programm worked fine.
I would backup the echofile and let hpt create a fresh one and see how it goes.

Regards

Kai

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Hello Kai!

Wednesday October 04 2023 20:29, you wrote to me:

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Hello Rick!

02 Oct 23, Rick Smith wrote to Kai Richter:

What is the difference for those areas that work?

I have not verified all but the seem like areas that I did not
have to shorten, for instance like BINKD and areas with similarly
shorter names..

I don't know if there is any fileformat conversion with the -dosfile parameter.

Once I had issues if a third party programm created a squish echoarea file. When the sqd was created by squish the third party programm
worked fine. I would backup the echofile and let hpt create a fresh
one and see how it goes.

I deleted all mail/messages from dir... And only signed up for ones that I know were an issue so we will see!

Regards,

Rick

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Hello Kai!

Wednesday October 04 2023 20:29, you wrote to me:

* Forwarded from area 'FIDOSOFT.HUSKY'
Hello Rick!

02 Oct 23, Rick Smith wrote to Kai Richter:

What is the difference for those areas that work?

I have not verified all but the seem like areas that I did not
have to shorten, for instance like BINKD and areas with similarly
shorter names..

I don't know if there is any fileformat conversion with the -dosfile parameter.

Once I had issues if a third party programm created a squish echoarea file. When the sqd was created by squish the third party programm
worked fine. I would backup the echofile and let hpt create a fresh
one and see how it goes.

I deleted the entire msgbase and just let HPT create them as they came in, some work and some do not, its really bizzare actually. Some of the shortned names work and some do not. I am going to do some more exploring and recheck that everything is configured correctly. I am on OS/2 (ARCAOS) so I am not using JAM I recall some issues with JAM on os2 a year ago so switched to squish not sure if thats still true today.

Regards,

Rick

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Hello Rick!

06 Oct 23, Rick Smith wrote to Kai Richter:

I deleted all mail/messages from dir... And only signed up for ones
that I know were an issue so we will see!

What kind of job does proboard do in mail processing? Does it have a mailer and/or do tossing or it is BBS to msgbase interface only?

Regards

Kai

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Hello Kai!

Saturday October 07 2023 10:20, you wrote to me:

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Hello Rick!

06 Oct 23, Rick Smith wrote to Kai Richter:

I deleted all mail/messages from dir... And only signed up for
ones that I know were an issue so we will see!

What kind of job does proboard do in mail processing? Does it have a mailer and/or do tossing or it is BBS to msgbase interface only?

Exactley right, bbs just reads the msgbase. It does have an editor, but I have not used that yet.

Regards,

Rick

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Hello Rick!

09 Oct 23, Rick Smith wrote to Kai Richter:

What kind of job does proboard do in mail processing? Does it
have a mailer and/or do tossing or it is BBS to msgbase interface
only?

Exactley right, bbs just reads the msgbase. It does have an editor,
but I have not used that yet.

Strange. The lastread pointer is updated by the editor but as far as i remember squish does have an own *.sql file for that. Check the timestamps of the *.sq? files to find where proboard puts it's hands on. If it does not touches the sq? files then it may be not a proboard related problem.

Regards

Kai

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Re: Bad messages
By: Rick Smith to All on Sat Sep 30 2023 06:04 pm

I have been setting up proboard bbs with hpt and was having trouble getting all the message bases into the bbs areas, some of you said to try 8+3 name scheme so I did that, I changed it in the bbs for each area as well as in hpt config. Now most (not all) mail ends up in the bad area saying something is corrupt about it..

U 07:08:07 dupe.c::dupeDetection() end nRet = 1
U 07:08:07 carbonCopy() begin
U 07:08:07 carbonCopy() rc=0
Z 07:08:07 ..\src\toss.c:232 opening \pb\msgbase\fido\BBS_PROM
A 07:08:07 Could not open/create EchoArea \pb\msgbase\fido\BBS_PROM!
Z 07:08:07 ..\src\toss.c:372 end rc=0
U 07:08:07 ..\src\toss.c::processEMMsg() rc=0
U 07:08:07 toss.c::processMsg() rc=0
U 07:08:07 putMsgInBadArea() begin
J 07:08:07 Badmail reason: MSGAPIERR: Invalid or corrupted file (AREA: BBS_PROM
OTION) <----------
Not sure what is happening, this is a new issue since changing the saved echo mail to 8+3 naming

Not sure if that arrow I made is pointing to a wordwrapping issue, but it definitely looks like something is still setup the old way and hasn't been changed to 8.3 format.

Regards,
Nick

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