Hello Niels!

Wednesday December 11 2019 11:23, you wrote to All:

 > Hi there,
 > I've set up a local message area and set "Msg Kinds" to "Private". I
 > uderstand that by doing things this way, only the sender and addressee
 > of a specific message can read it. Still, other users can use
 > "Quickscan" to view who sent a specific message, who was the addressee
 > for that message and what its subject was.

 > My assumption would be that if "Msg Kinds" is set to "Private", a user
 > would only be able to see his/her sent/received messages. It seems to
 > work that way if "Msg Kinds" is set to "Private" on a non-local,
 > Echomail message area.

 > In other ways: is it possible to have a non-networked (local) but
 > private message area similar to what "personal messages" are on other
 > BBS systems?

I thought that setting a echo to private no one see content other than the 
sender and
recipient.

Are you saying that is NOT the case and if so under what circumstances, i.e., 
dany user
logged into the system or a remote user via internet or QWK packets ?


One way of making sure would be trying out the settings for each area that 
raises the
security of it but I am not sure that is a gain or a hindrance.

The security of the Private flag should be dealing with it and if not sound 
like a bug and
will need looking into.

Tell me what the conditions are when it can be see by all others.
Note that the Sysop can always see echo message content unless the security is 
raised above
that of the sysop which is what happens on my system for military areas both 
UK and USA so I
can not see them when using tools like golded. Note that some of these echos 
are also
protected by encryption which fully locks down such security as there is no 
way I can read
them .

Echo security can be found via mbset 9.2. area number then Read =  16, Write = 
17 and 18
sysop with 24, 25 both No and 27 as needed but poosibly same as 16 - 18.


Vincent

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