[nos-bbs] mailmsg and index corruption ?

[Langelaar]

That's good info anyways, thanks Jerome.

On 12/15/20 3:19 PM, jerome schatten wrote:
> I’ve never been present when the error occurs… I get an error message to the tune of ‘index for mail is corrupt’. I’ve checked the logs each time, but that error doesn’t seem to get logged and so I can’t tell exactly where in a forwarding cycle it’s occurring. It has never occurred when I have sent a message that I have constructed if that’s what you mean by ‘mailmesg created messages’.
> jerome
>
>
>> On Dec 15, 2020, at 13:03, Langelaar <maiko at pcsinternet.ca> wrote:
>>
>> For the mailmsg created messages ?
>>
>> No no, just delete the *.ind, not everthing, then you don't loose the content.
>>
>> OR run 'index <area>' at the JNOS prompt when noone is forwarding.
>>
>> Maiko
>>
>> On 12/15/20 2:38 PM, jerome schatten wrote:
>>> I had this happen a few days ago and from time to time over the past year or two.
>>>
>>> In each case I would delete everything in ~/spool/mail  and deletie sequence.seq  from ~/spool/mqueue
>>>
>>> This kills all the current mail messages and forces the index to be rebuilt
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Jerome - ve7ass
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>> On Dec 15, 2020, at 10:45, Langelaar <maiko at pcsinternet.ca> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone (several would be good) confirm that mailmsg possibly
>>>>
>>>> corrupts the index on the mailbox of intended area ? If I didn't
>>>>
>>>> know any better after I posted to packet at ww, things went strange
>>>>
>>>> when I tried to list the entries in that area.
>>>>
>>>> Or maybe I'm just going 'mad' ...
>>>>
>>>> Maiko / VE4KLM
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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