AM> I worked out why the extensions to my mail packets were wrong.  Squish
AM> renames them if the unpacker doesn't work properly.  Or at least, it did
AM> under my particular circumstances.  SO I fixed the path problem, renamed
AM> the files again and all was well.  I expect to get all my mail for the
AM> last two months tonight, so you'll have ten or so meg free soon... :)

Yep, I opened the limits on my session time, and 1 hour 44 minutes
later, the rest was history. 

AM> Question:  do you know of any common (well known) problem with
AM> Bink/Squish/Maximus (for OS/2) based BBSs having problems with the
AM> frequent resetting of users OLR pointers?  Didn't you have that problem
AM> back in the days when people were  using OLRs on your
AM> board?

There are so many problems with Maximus that I was determined
to ditch the BBS side of things.  By comparison, the front-end
mailer has been far more reliable than the BBS, and now that I
have Binkley recompiled with my own 32-bit compilers, I can
debug it myself.

Anthony, I'd suggest now is a good time to:

1. Use BTPE302.ZIP, so that you can get more debugging info.
2. Use the OS/2 version of PQWK240 to create your QWK packets.

Or if you want to keep messagebases, process your inbound mail
by both squish and pqwk.  

Personally I would suggest switching to MSGED, a 32-bit mail
reader, in order to read your mail, straight out of the
messagebase.  BFN.  Paul.
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