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  • Re: rescanning and long messages

    From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to Tommi Koivula on Wed Nov 30 12:02:02 2022
    Hi Tommi,

    On 2022-11-30 12:55:07, you wrote to me:

    That shouldn't matter for a rescan. The full message is already stored
    in there...

    In case of hudson also?

    My DUPE area is in hudson. There were no problems importing the big messages in there.

    Can it store that big messages?

    Apparently...

    Cannot remember the limits of HMB anymore but it has some. :)

    The "biggest" limit is, the maximum 16MB size of the total message base.


    Bye, Wilfred.

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  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to Tommi Koivula on Wed Nov 30 12:06:29 2022
    Hi Tommi,

    On 2022-11-30 12:59:11, you wrote to me:

    You can thank Dan Richter also, his messages are getting bigger and
    bigger every day. 260k today. ;)

    It doesn't bother me, I'm not connected to the file announce areas in FidoNet. ;-)

    Bye, Wilfred.

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  • From Tommi Koivula@2:221/360 to Wilfred van Velzen on Wed Nov 30 13:47:38 2022
    Hello, Wilfred van Velzen.
    On 30/11/2022 13.02 you wrote:

    Hi Tommi,
    On 2022-11-30 12:55:07, you wrote to me:
    That shouldn't matter for a rescan. The full message is already stored
    in there...
    In case of hudson also?
    My DUPE area is in hudson. There were no problems importing the big messages in there.

    Good to know.

    Can it store that big messages?
    Apparently...
    Cannot remember the limits of HMB anymore but it has some. :)
    The "biggest" limit is, the maximum 16MB size of the total message base.

    And max 200 areas. Well it was good enough for SuperBBS. :)


    Tommi

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  • From Carol Shenkenberger@1:275/100 to Carlos Navarro on Sun Dec 11 12:02:16 2022
    Re: rescanning and long messages
    By: Carlos Navarro to Wilfred van Velzen on Mon Nov 28 2022 08:40 pm

    It seems that FMail (at least the Win32 version) has issues when rescanning echos that have long messages.

    I've done some test and checked the PKTs -- long messages seem to be cut at around 40K.

    Carlos


    Probably a snippit from code back when some BBSes would crash the message base on ones longer than that.

    xxcarol
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