Hello Sean!

07 May 09 20:10, Sean Dennis wrote to Mike Tripp:

 SD> What I'm stuck on is that I keep trying to upload my packets but when
 SD> BW processes the messages, I get "Status: Unable to access message
 SD> base; skipped."

When we talked in Feb, I think this was your problem with the door finding areas:

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    You will  now need  to load  your MSGAREA.CTL file (the file that
    contains Maximus'  message area  information) into  your favorite
    text editor to verify that each message area that you want active
    in the  door contains  a "Tag  " token line.  Because of
    the way  that The  Blue Wave  Mail Door  tracks information about
    each user  and which message areas have been tagged for download,
    it is  absolutely necessary to perform this step.  (Don't worry -
    once you  do it,  you'll never  have to  do it  again!)  The "Tag
    " token  in MSGAREA.CTL is normally only used by Maximus
    for EchoMail  areas.  Because of this, you probably do not have a
    "Tag "  token defined  for any  of your NetMail or Local
    message areas.
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 SD> That makes no sense to me since I've removed the hierarchial
 SD> message areas (divisions), made all of the message area "names"
 SD> numerical, made sure everything had the right areatag and even
 SD> fixed a few glaring errors I'd somehow missed long ago setting up
 SD> MSGAREA.CTL.

3.2 supports divisions in your Max3 setup, but it doesn't present the
division name anywhere to the user in it's own area selection screens.  It
presents an dynamically auto-numbered list of areatags...and users select
by typing the autonumbers not the tags.

Personally, it only makes sense to use to see the real Fido tag as the
areatag in the BW area selection screen.  If you use numbers as tags and
there are skips due to user not having access to a sysop-only area or
netmail area, then they may end up having to select area "51"
(auto-generated by BW) to subscribe to "60" (local name
meaningful only to your board)...and still not know whether that is
actually "BLUEWAVE". :)

.\\ike

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