29 Apr 2023 19:49, you wrote to Oli:

 TK>> In this debian 64bit I tried "sudo apt install crashmail", then
 TK>> created a 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

 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
 TK>> cannot work with it. :(

 TK>> So yes, we have to file a bug report. Just test by yourself and
 TK>> go ahead.

 TK> I repeated the same procedure in this Raspian OS 32bit RPI 3B+ system.
 TK> Works very nice. So 64bit is to blame.

On the website at SourceForge (https://ftnapps.sourceforge.net/crashmail.html) there is a link to a CrashMail II port (fork):
https://github.com/larsks/crashmail
Includes: Support for 64-bit operating (POSIX) operating systems.

Maybe worth checking?

It was archived, but there is also a fork of that fork here:
https://github.com/punktniklas/crashmail
which was last updated "recently", in 2020.

Carlos

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