On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 22:43:50 GMT, rick christian   
    wrote:   
      
    rc> I have gotten setup with a node, changed the crashmail.prefs to that node.   
      
    rc> Did my Areafix, and added some echos.. but when importing them I get:   
      
    rc> ! 23-Oct-16 22:09:37 Failed to read message #55 in JAM messagebase   
    rc> "/home/rec9140/fido/jam/BINKD"   
    rc> ! 23-Oct-16 22:09:37 Failed to read message #56 in JAM messagebase   
    rc> "/home/rec9140/fido/jam/BINKD"   
    rc> ! 23-Oct-16 22:09:37 Failed to read message #57 in JAM messagebase   
    rc> "/home/rec9140/fido/jam/BINKD"   
      
   I have not ran crashmail but since it was developed by same person may   
   have this one issue that I ran into.   
      
   When I started trying to setup jamnntpd here I noticed that when   
   posting messages it would corrupt a message base or not see all the   
   messages.  I concluded it was an alignment error because the int's   
   used in the library are not of size specific.  the sizeof an int can   
   vary on architectures..  So when jamnntp's jamlib is built on a 64 bit   
   platform some of them are wrong size.   
      
   It wouldn't take much to go thru the code and fix this, or simply   
   build it with -m32 option (which I tested and works fine).   
      
   For jamnntpd, I just went with the smapi version (though it had bad   
   bugs too) which are now corrected.  It builds as a 64bit binary too...   
   no issues.  I used golded, hpt, and jamnntpd together.  I just need to   
   get off my butt and release what I have but there is one more thing I   
   want to correct before I do as well as test building on windows.   
      
   The state of fido software is that once someone gets something working   
   they tend to not share it outright.  Not out of malice - just out of   
   time constaints.  they also don't tend to make things "release grade"   
   such that a novice user can simply install them.  I do believe some   
   people want and would come back.  We need to figure out how to make   
   this great modern software more easy to use and understand.   
      
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