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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><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><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='color:windowtext'> nos-bbs-bounces@tapr.org [mailto:nos-bbs-bounces@tapr.org] <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></div></div><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><br>part of the message id of last message read<br><br>ve3tok 208448<br><br>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><br>73,<br><br><br>Bob VE3TOK<br><br><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 14-10-22 10:30 AM, Michael E Fox - N6MEF wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><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><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>nos-bbs mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:nos-bbs@tapr.org">nos-bbs@tapr.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/nos-bbs">http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/nos-bbs</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>