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|    Vincent Coen to Niels Haedecke    |
|    What does "Msg Kinds" specify?    |
|    20 Mar 20 17:15:50    |
      REPLY: 2:240/8002@fidonet 5a68b67f       MSGID: 2:250/1@fidonet 5e74fd01       CHRS: UTF-8 2       TZUTC: 0000       TID: MBSE-FIDO 1.0.7.13 (GNU/Linux-x86_64)       Hello Niels!              Wednesday December 11 2019 11:23, you wrote to All:               > Hi there,        > I've set up a local message area and set "Msg Kinds" to "Private". I        > uderstand that by doing things this way, only the sender and addressee        > of a specific message can read it. Still, other users can use        > "Quickscan" to view who sent a specific message, who was the addressee        > for that message and what its subject was.               > My assumption would be that if "Msg Kinds" is set to "Private", a user        > would only be able to see his/her sent/received messages. It seems to        > work that way if "Msg Kinds" is set to "Private" on a non-local,        > Echomail message area.               > In other ways: is it possible to have a non-networked (local) but        > private message area similar to what "personal messages" are on other        > BBS systems?              I thought that setting a echo to private no one see content other than the        sender and       recipient.              Are you saying that is NOT the case and if so under what circumstances, i.e.,        dany user       logged into the system or a remote user via internet or QWK packets ?                     One way of making sure would be trying out the settings for each area that        raises the       security of it but I am not sure that is a gain or a hindrance.              The security of the Private flag should be dealing with it and if not sound        like a bug and       will need looking into.              Tell me what the conditions are when it can be see by all others.       Note that the Sysop can always see echo message content unless the security is        raised above       that of the sysop which is what happens on my system for military areas both        UK and USA so I       can not see them when using tools like golded. Note that some of these echos        are also       protected by encryption which fully locks down such security as there is no        way I can read       them .              Echo security can be found via mbset 9.2. area number then Read = 16, Write =        17 and 18       sysop with 24, 25 both No and 27 as needed but poosibly same as 16 - 18.                     Vincent              --- Mageia Linux v7.1 X64/Mbse v1.0.7.13/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707        * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK & Eire (2:250/1)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 10/0 1 14/5 15/0 18/200 19/36 34/999 90/1 102/401 103/705       SEEN-BY: 103/9999 106/201 116/18 120/331 123/140 128/2 153/757 7715       SEEN-BY: 154/10 203/0 218/0 1 215 401 700 720 802 820 221/0 227/114       SEEN-BY: 229/101 426 452 1014 230/150 152 240/1120 5832 249/206 317       SEEN-BY: 249/400 250/1 261/38 100 266/512 267/155 275/100 280/464       SEEN-BY: 280/5003 282/1031 1056 288/100 291/1 111 292/854 317/3 320/119       SEEN-BY: 320/219 322/757 340/400 342/13 200 396/45 423/120 633/280       SEEN-BY: 640/1321 712/848 770/1 801/161 189 2320/105 2452/250 3634/12       SEEN-BY: 5020/1042       PATH: 250/1 261/38 218/700 103/705 280/464 229/426           |
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