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Michael.<br>
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If you delete a message you will see that its id remains in the
area.usr file.<br>
If you check into a public area "your_call 0" is written to
area.usr if you never logged into that area and<br>
the "0" is overwritten with the id of the last message you have read
at the moment that you switch over to another area<br>
and when you log out otherwise just the old id is overwritten for
your call if you are already in area.usr.<br>
You will also see calls appended with an underscore in area.usr and
these indicate errors mostly with a bbs,<br>
a message is not forwarded because something goes wrong with a
transmission, etc. The underscore just means<br>
something like, forget what I have said.<br>
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Only the id of the last message is written, so it doesn't overwrite
after each message. Other stuff is kept somewhere else.<br>
The function definitions who write to usr are in bmutil.c<br>
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73,<br>
<br>
Bob VE3TOK<br>
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On 14-10-24 02:27 PM, Michael E Fox - N6MEF wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks Bob.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I’m seeing
something weird.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">In mailbox.usr,
an individual has a last read number of 29335. But the
three messages in that mailbox.txt file are numbered 28560,
6039, and 14880, respectively. So apparently, the numbers
used in .txt roll over at some point but the last read
number recorded in .usr doesn’t. So this user gets “0 new”
messages when he logs in, but, in fact, he is certain he
hasn’t read at least the last one. Unless the numbers in
.usr are updated when the message numbers roll over, it
seems the algorithm is doomed to never work correctly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Very strange.
Does anyone know how this process is supposed to work?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Michael<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span
style="color:windowtext"> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nos-bbs-bounces@tapr.org">nos-bbs-bounces@tapr.org</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:nos-bbs-bounces@tapr.org">mailto:nos-bbs-bounces@tapr.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Boudewijn
(Bob) Tenty<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 22, 2014 10:12 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> TAPR xNOS Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [nos-bbs] mailbox.usr and
mailbox.inf file<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">>1) The
mailbox.usr file holds a call sign and a number on each
row. What does the number represent?<br>
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part of the message id of last message read<br>
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ve3tok 208448<br>
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Received: from port.ve3mch.ampr.org by port.ve3mch.ampr.org
(JNOS2.0j.X) with SMTP<br>
id AA208448 ; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 14:27:07 +0000<br>
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73,<br>
<br>
<br>
Bob VE3TOK<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 14-10-22 10:30 AM, Michael E Fox -
N6MEF wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For a given JNOS mailbox, there are
several files:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- mailbox.txt holds the actual
messages in mbox format<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- mailbox.ind holds the index<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- mailbox.inf – don’t know<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- mailbox.usr holds which users have
read up to which message<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Two questions:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1) The mailbox.usr file holds a call
sign and a number on each row. What does the number
represent?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For example, if the line contains
“n6mef 0”, what does that mean? And how is that different
from not listing the call sign at all?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As another example, if the line
contains “n6mef 1000”, what does that mean and how does
that relate to the Message-Id: header in the messages
stored in mailbox.txt?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2) What is the purpose of the
mailbox.inf file?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Michael<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">N6MEF<o:p></o:p></p>
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