It seems that FMail (at least the Win32 version) has issues when rescanning echos that have long messages.

I've done some test and checked the PKTs -- long messages seem to be cut at around 40K.

Carlos

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Hi Carlos,

On 2022-11-28 20:40:34, you wrote to me:

It seems that FMail (at least the Win32 version) has issues when rescanning echos that have long messages.

I've done some test and checked the PKTs -- long messages seem to be cut at
around 40K.

I would have to test that. What are your settings for "Max message size (kb)" and "Max PKT size (kb)"?

Bye, Wilfred.

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I would have to test that. What are your settings for "Max message
size (kb)" and "Max PKT size (kb)"?

0 (no maximum) and 9999.

The big messages were tossed and exported to all links without issues when they arrived. I only found this problem with rescans.

Carlos

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On 28.11.2022 22.37, Carlos Navarro wrote:

The big messages were tossed and exported to all links without issues
when they arrived. I only found this problem with rescans.

I think I know the answer, but I ask anyway: What msgbase format are you using?

'Tommi

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The big messages were tossed and exported to all links without
issues when they arrived. I only found this problem with rescans.

I think I know the answer, but I ask anyway: What msgbase format
are you using?

JAM.

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On 29.11.2022 8.41, Carlos Navarro wrote:

??>> The big messages were tossed and exported to all links without
??>> issues when they arrived. I only found this problem with rescans.
TK> I think I know the answer, but I ask anyway: What msgbase format
TK> are you using?

JAM.

Yes, so that is not the problem.

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Hi Tommi,

On 29 Nov 22 08:25, Tommi Koivula wrote to Carlos Navarro:
about: "rescanning and long messages":

The big messages were tossed and exported to all links without issues
when they arrived. I only found this problem with rescans.

I think I know the answer, but I ask anyway: What msgbase format are you using?

That shouldn't matter for a rescan. The full message is already stored in there...

Wilfred.

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Hi Carlos,

On 2022-11-28 21:37:31, you wrote to me:

I would have to test that. What are your settings for "Max message
size (kb)" and "Max PKT size (kb)"?

0 (no maximum) and 9999.

The big messages were tossed and exported to all links without issues when they arrived. I only found this problem with rescans.

I did the test, talking to my linux version of FMail and can reproduce this. So thanks for the bug report! ;-)

Bye, Wilfred.

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>> The big messages were tossed and exported to all links without issues
>> when they arrived. I only found this problem with rescans.

TK> I think I know the answer, but I ask anyway: What msgbase format are you
TK> using?

That shouldn't matter for a rescan. The full message is already stored in there...

In case of hudson also? Can it store that big messages? Cannot remember the limits of HMB anymore but it has some. :)

'Tommi

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WV>> I would have to test that. What are your settings for "Max message
WV>> size (kb)" and "Max PKT size (kb)"?

CN> 0 (no maximum) and 9999.

CN> The big messages were tossed and exported to all links without issues when
CN> they arrived. I only found this problem with rescans.

I did the test, talking to my linux version of FMail and can reproduce this. So thanks for the bug report! ;-)

You can thank Dan Richter also, his messages are getting bigger and bigger every day. 260k today. ;)

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Hi Tommi,

On 2022-11-30 12:55:07, you wrote to me:

That shouldn't matter for a rescan. The full message is already stored
in there...

In case of hudson also?

My DUPE area is in hudson. There were no problems importing the big messages in there.

Can it store that big messages?

Apparently...

Cannot remember the limits of HMB anymore but it has some. :)

The "biggest" limit is, the maximum 16MB size of the total message base.


Bye, Wilfred.

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Hi Tommi,

On 2022-11-30 12:59:11, you wrote to me:

You can thank Dan Richter also, his messages are getting bigger and
bigger every day. 260k today. ;)

It doesn't bother me, I'm not connected to the file announce areas in FidoNet. ;-)

Bye, Wilfred.

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Hello, Wilfred van Velzen.
On 30/11/2022 13.02 you wrote:

Hi Tommi,
On 2022-11-30 12:55:07, you wrote to me:

That shouldn't matter for a rescan. The full message is already stored
in there...

In case of hudson also?

My DUPE area is in hudson. There were no problems importing the big messages in there.

Good to know.

Can it store that big messages?

Apparently...

Cannot remember the limits of HMB anymore but it has some. :)

The "biggest" limit is, the maximum 16MB size of the total message base.

And max 200 areas. Well it was good enough for SuperBBS. :)


Tommi

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Re: rescanning and long messages
By: Carlos Navarro to Wilfred van Velzen on Mon Nov 28 2022 08:40 pm

It seems that FMail (at least the Win32 version) has issues when rescanning echos that have long messages.

I've done some test and checked the PKTs -- long messages seem to be cut at around 40K.

Carlos

Probably a snippit from code back when some BBSes would crash the message base on ones longer than that.

xxcarol
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