Hi Paul

 > AREA:LOCSYSOP
 > Today you sent me:

 > 1. messages with an origin line > 80.

 > 2. netmail messages to "all" addressed to 3:711/934.

 > 3. All the netmail messages had origin lines.

Is there any chance of you zipping up the messages and sending them back to me. ??
I then may sonme chance of finding out what went wrong



 > Remember, echomail has an AREA line.  Remember, use hexdump when you're
 > experimenting (or "inspect").


Yeah I was experimenting, but obviously I can't rely on the information the
Scanner gives me as being accurute.

 Cut from Christians FMail Log

----------  Fri 29 Nov 96, FMail/386 0.98 - SCAN /S
  21:54:36  Echomail message, area AUST_POINT
  21:54:36  Echomail message, area AUST_AVTECH
  21:54:43  Sending new mail from 3:670/213.375 to 3:670/213
  21:54:43  Netmail: 0,  Personal: 0
  21:54:43  Msgbase: 2  (net: 0, echo: 2, dup: 0, bad: 0)
  21:54:43  Active:  0:35

This is a normal scan and and as you can see from the fourth line it says
WHO it is sending mail to that it found in the Scan for new messages.


----------  Sun  1 Dec 96, FMail/386 0.98 - SCAN /S
  18:17:37  Echomail message, area JUNK
  18:17:38  Echomail message, area JUNK
  18:17:38  Echomail message, area JUNK
  18:17:38  Echomail message, area JUNK
  18:17:38  Echomail message, area JUNK
  18:17:38  Netmail: 0,  Personal: 0
  18:17:38  Msgbase: 5  (net: 0, echo: 5, dup: 0, bad: 0)
  18:17:39  Active:  0:32

The above apppeared after I had fiddled in the JUNK message area (it is
marked Local & NO EXPORT)   It found the test messages, but says that
it did not send them anywhere.


----------  Sun  1 Dec 96, FMail/386 0.98 - SCAN /S
  19:46:42  Echomail message, area LOCUSER
  19:46:42  Echomail message, area AUST_POINT
  19:46:44  Sending new mail from 3:670/213.375 to 3:670/213
  19:46:46  Sending new mail from 3:711/934.27 to 3:711/934
  19:46:47  Sending new mail from 3:711/934.27 to 3:670/213
  19:46:47  Netmail: 0,  Personal: 0
  19:46:47  Msgbase: 2  (net: 0, echo: 2, dup: 0, bad: 0)
  19:46:47  Active:  0:37


This was after the new mail had been tossed and I had replied to TWO
messages. Again as you can see that the 4th 5th & sixth lines inform as
to WHO the mail is being sent to.

In all the Entries there is NO mention of any NETMAIL
There is also no indication that the JUNK messages where being exported.

It is obvious that the logs did not reflect what really happened, and that
I cannot rely on them. As you say I _should_ have done an inspection of the
outgoing compressed bundles and I apologise for not doing that.

Obviously there is an error in the setup as those messages should never
have left the system, but I have no hope of finding out what really
happened unless I can get to view the actual messages that were sent.

I would greatly appreciate you sending them back to me (in whatever form is
most suitable to you) so that I can find the bug and remove the possibility
of "crap" messages  from a local conference being exported to
_any_ of the 3 systems that I or Christian exchange mail with.

Thank you for letting me know that the error had occured, as otherwise i
would have been completely unaware of it.

Thanks
Niels

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