On Feb 14, 1997 at 17:53, andrew clarke of 3:635/728.4{at}fidonet sez to Mike Christian:

>> ^m to get by the opening screen, * to scan all areas, and \0x1e to 
>> put me in area list. With 4.1, my netmail area isn't scanned.

ac> I tested it just then with 4.1; it worked for me.  How is your 
ac> netmail area configured, and in what format is it stored?  Are you 
ac> sure it's working differently compared to Msged 4.00?


I have a *.MSG format Netmail area. Most other areas are SQUISH except
internet mailing list areas. I was also using NetMgr and MsgNum to relink,
renumber and delete messages. I'll try running Msged stand-alone and see if
it works.


No luck. I just tried running Msged from the command line with no batch
files, with the function 0 macro set to:  function 0  ^m * \0x1e
when MsgEd booted up it scanned all areas, and showed my netmail area as
having 0 messages. Hitting the * key caused it to scan again, and it then
showed the correct number of messages in the NetMail area.

I don't know how it could have cause this, but I was having trouble with
MsgNum.  When I started using it messages in my netmail area were numbered
into the 3400's, and for some reason MsgNum would not renumber them. I
manually renamed about 200 messages down to the 200 to 400 range, and then
MsgNum would renumber them correctly. But, as I mentioned above, even
running MsgEd without running MsgNum doesn't seem to work right. BTW, now
all *.MSG areas are numbered correctly (1 to 300).

I also tried commenting out the function 0 macro, and booting MsgEd. I then
manually hit , then *. After the scan, Netmail showed no
messages until I scanned a second time.


Thanx for checking this out Andrew.


              **Mike**


 mike.christian{at}nopc.org

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