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from: Martin Foster
date: 2019-06-04 13:51:00
subject: [SemPoint] Breakthrough

Greetings All!

I've finally figured out what was causing the "missing" first
line of every message and the garbage under the origin line issues. It
would appear that SemPoint expects 8.3 messagebase filenames and more
importantly, the "8" part of the filename MUST be in UPPERCASE,
although it doesn't seem to matter what case the file extension is.

I've tried this with CrashMail and the line in the config file that makes
all the difference is this one:

---------- 8< ----------
AREA "DEFAULT_F" 2:310/31.3 JAM
"c:\\users\\martin\\mailer\\msgbase\\%a"
---------- 8< ----------
The "%a" at the end of the line tells CrashMail to create new
areas in UPPERCASE, which results in this new area:

---------- 8< ----------
AREA "POINTS" 2:310/31.3 JAM
"c:\\users\\martin\\mailer\\msgbase\\POINTS"
---------- 8< ---------

Here's a directory listing of my new JAM messagebase:

---------- 8< ----------
 Directory of c:\Users\martin\mailer\msgbase

04/06/2019  12:57              .
04/06/2019  12:57              ..
04/06/2019  12:57           681,746 POINTS.jdt
04/06/2019  12:57             5,984 POINTS.jdx
04/06/2019  13:04           361,612 POINTS.jhr
04/06/2019  13:26                16 POINTS.jlr
---------- 8< ----------

Note the file extensions are in lowercase but hey, who cares! -:))

Regards,
Martin

--- SemPoint 2.26+
* Origin: This time everything is easy (2:310/31.3)
SEEN-BY: 154/10 203/0 221/0 229/426 240/5832 261/38 280/464 5003 292/854
SEEN-BY: 310/31 396/45 423/120 633/0 267 280 281 412 509 712/620 848 886 770/1
SEEN-BY: 2452/250
@PATH: 310/31 280/464 712/848 633/280 267

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