Re: Re-processing QWK packets
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Sat Jan 27 2024 08:33 am

 > All (and most likely DM),
 >
 > I noticed a handful of VERT.QWKxxxxxx.bad files in my DATA directory,
 > I'm guessing there was a problem importing the packets. I can open them
 > up in 7-zip and it looks like a valid packet. If I try renaming the file
 > to vert.qwk and opening one of the .bad files in MultiMail, I get a
 > "packet type not recognized" error, although I can open other .zip
 > formatted .QWK files.
 >
 > It looks like I've got zip 2.31/unzip 5.52 in my path.
 >
 > Is there a way to re-import the files, so I can see if I get any error
 > messages on import?

Yes, just renaming the file to VERT.QWK should trigger an import attempt (in the terminal server event thread).

If you can search through older log messages, you should also be able to find the original errors that triggered the renaming to *.bad in the first place.
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