Hopefully this is a quick question. Tonight when I jumped onto my BBS to download my QWK packet to catch up on all the messages I could not open the packet using MultiMail. Verified via several computers this was true. 132491 is the size. So I reset the pointers to last night's time frame and downloaded again. This time it opens but many of the messages are messed up.

I see ERROR READING MESSAGES.DAT
Others are just garbled characters but can get the jist of the message.

First time I ran into this and just reading via the BBS everything seems just fine.



Jeff Bodenstein
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Re: QWK Offline reading
By: pcmedtek to All on Wed Oct 07 2020 11:05 pm

Hopefully this is a quick question. Tonight when I jumped onto my BBS to download my QWK packet to catch up on all the messages I could not open the packet using MultiMail. Verified via several computers this was true. 132491 is the size. So I reset the pointers to last night's time frame and downloaded again. This time it opens but many of the messages are messed up.

I see ERROR READING MESSAGES.DAT
Others are just garbled characters but can get the jist of the message.

First time I ran into this and just reading via the BBS everything seems just fine.

You could send one of the bad packets to me for a look.

The size in bytes doesn't mean anything, it's just a ZIP file (usually), so it could be any size.

digital man

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Re: QWK Offline reading
By: Digital Man to pcmedtek on Thu Oct 08 2020 12:30 am

Re: QWK Offline reading
By: pcmedtek to All on Wed Oct 07 2020 11:05 pm

Hopefully this is a quick question. Tonight when I jumped onto my BBS to download my QWK packet to catch up on all the messages I could not open the packet using MultiMail. Verified via several computers this was true. 132491 is the size. So I reset the pointers to last night's time frame and downloaded again. This time it opens but many of the messages are messed up.

I see ERROR READING MESSAGES.DAT
Others are just garbled characters but can get the jist of the message.

First time I ran into this and just reading via the BBS everything seems just fine.

You could send one of the bad packets to me for a look.

The QWK packets you sent me contain voting data.
Viewing .ZIP: s:/xfer/uploads/COFFEE.qwk

Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Attr Name
------ ------ ----- ----- ---- ---- -------- ---- ----
11392 DeflatN 4503 60.5% 10/07/2020 10:50p 94fee088 ---- CONTROL.DAT
454 DeflatN 179 60.6% 10/07/2020 10:50p ac651d2e ---- DOOR.ID
0 Stored 0 0.0% 10/07/2020 10:50p 00000000 ---- HEADERS.DAT
256 DeflatN 122 52.4% 10/07/2020 10:50p fa8df523 ---- MESSAGES.DAT
4811 DeflatN 623 87.1% 10/07/2020 10:50p 83c01a04 ---- TOREADER.EXT
200 DeflatN 153 23.5% 10/07/2020 10:50p b724e8ac ---- VOTING.DAT

I don't believe there are any QWK offline readers that support voting data, including Multimail, yet. So turn that off in your QWK settings (for your user). The default setting of QWK voting data is "off".

digital man

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Re: QWK Offline reading
By: Digital Man to pcmedtek on Sat Oct 10 2020 01:30 pm

Re: QWK Offline reading
By: Digital Man to pcmedtek on Thu Oct 08 2020 12:30 am

Re: QWK Offline reading
By: pcmedtek to All on Wed Oct 07 2020 11:05 pm

Hopefully this is a quick question. Tonight when I jumped onto my BBS to download my QWK packet to catch up on all the messages I could not open the packet using MultiMail. Verified via several computers this was true. 132491 is the size. So I reset the pointers to last night's time frame and downloaded again. This time it opens but many of the messages are messed up.

I see ERROR READING MESSAGES.DAT
Others are just garbled characters but can get the jist of the message.

First time I ran into this and just reading via the BBS everything seems just fine.

You could send one of the bad packets to me for a look.

The QWK packets you sent me contain voting data.
Viewing .ZIP: s:/xfer/uploads/COFFEE.qwk

Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Attr Name
------ ------ ----- ----- ---- ---- -------- ---- ----
11392 DeflatN 4503 60.5% 10/07/2020 10:50p 94fee088 ---- CONTROL.DAT
454 DeflatN 179 60.6% 10/07/2020 10:50p ac651d2e ---- DOOR.ID
0 Stored 0 0.0% 10/07/2020 10:50p 00000000 ---- HEADERS.DAT
256 DeflatN 122 52.4% 10/07/2020 10:50p fa8df523 ----
MESSAGES.DAT
4811 DeflatN 623 87.1% 10/07/2020 10:50p 83c01a04 ----
TOREADER.EXT
200 DeflatN 153 23.5% 10/07/2020 10:50p b724e8ac ---- VOTING.DAT

I don't believe there are any QWK offline readers that support voting data, including Multimail, yet. So turn that off in your QWK settings (for your user). The default setting of QWK voting data is "off".

Looking at this further, it appears the QWK NDX (index) files created by sbbs for subs that include votes are incorrect. Disabling voting support in the QWK packet (as I suggested aboev) would fix this, but so would setting

IgnoreNDX: Yes

in your .mmailrc file.

I'll be fixing the bug in sbbs a well, but you have a number of solutions available to now, including excluding the index files from the QWK packet too (they're not really needed).

digital man

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Re: QWK Offline reading
By: Digital Man to pcmedtek on Sat Oct 10 2020 01:30 pm

I don't believe there are any QWK offline readers that support voting data, including Multimail, yet. So turn that off in your QWK settings (for your user). The default setting of QWK voting data is "off".

digital man

Thank you. Just turn that off and will check in the morning.

Thanks again.


Jeff Bodenstein
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Re: QWK Offline reading
By: pcmedtek to Digital Man on Sat Oct 10 2020 09:37 pm

Re: QWK Offline reading
By: Digital Man to pcmedtek on Sat Oct 10 2020 01:30 pm

I don't believe there are any QWK offline readers that support voting data, including Multimail, yet. So turn that off in your QWK settings (for your user). The default setting of QWK voting data is "off".

Thank you. Just turn that off and will check in the morning.

I also think I fixed the problem with the NDX files. So if you could update sbbs and retest with the same setup, that'd be appreciated.

Thanks again.

Thank you for the bug report,

digital man

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Re: QWK Offline reading
By: Digital Man to pcmedtek on Sun Oct 11 2020 01:51 pm

I also think I fixed the problem with the NDX files. So if you could update sbbs and retest with the same setup, that'd be appreciated.

Thanks again.

Thank you for the bug report,

digital man

Will do that here in a little bit or first thing in the morning.




Jeff Bodenstein
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Re: QWK Offline reading
By: Digital Man to pcmedtek on Sun Oct 11 2020 01:51 pm

I also think I fixed the problem with the NDX files. So if you could update sbbs and retest with the same setup, that'd be appreciated.

Thanks again.

Just finished this morning updating the BBS and ran several QWK packets today with the voting on and have seen no issues.

Thank you.


Jeff Bodenstein
Coffee House BBS

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Re: QWK Offline reading
By: pcmedtek to Digital Man on Mon Oct 12 2020 05:19 pm

Re: QWK Offline reading
By: Digital Man to pcmedtek on Sun Oct 11 2020 01:51 pm

I also think I fixed the problem with the NDX files. So if you could update sbbs and retest with the same setup, that'd be appreciated.

Thanks again.

Just finished this morning updating the BBS and ran several QWK packets today with the voting on and have seen no issues.

Cool, thanks for the feedback. I also noticed you had Ctrl-A codes enabled too and MultiMail isn't going to display those nicely, so probably want set those to "strip".

digital man

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