Tommi wrote (2023-04-29):

 TK> Hi Oli.

 TK>>> Does it work ok in Linux/64bit? Jamnntpd does not, and they are
 TK>>> related...

 Ol>> I haven't tested it, but I believe so.

 TK> Not good enough for me. Not a matter of religion. :)

;)

 Ol>> Both are available for Debian in 64-bit. Do we have to file a bug
 Ol>> report?

 TK> In this debian 64bit I tried "sudo apt install crashmail", then created a
 TK> very basic crashmail.prefs with one area

 TK>   area rbb.test.9 2:221/6 jam /bbs/piste/msgbase/rbb.test.9
 TK>   keepnum 99
 TK>   keepdays 99

Had the area been created by crashmail or another tosser?

 TK> crashmaint maint verbose
 TK> Processing rbb.test.9...
 TK>   0 messages deleted by number, 4278124318 messages left
 TK>   0 messages deleted by date, 4278124318 messages left

 TK> And the jam base is now broken. Hpt cannot work with it, Golded cannot
 TK> work with it. :(

Did you try to compare the .j?? files from before and after running crashmaint?

Did you try to run crashmaint a second time over the broken JAM base?

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