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

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

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