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|    Travis Mehrer to All    |
|    Message Base Corruption    |
|    11 Sep 21 16:20:33    |
      TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A46       MSGID: 1:134/303 09d08fbd       TZUTC: -0600       Does anyone have any strategies for dealing with Message Base corruption? For       me, it always seems to happen with Fidonet Echomail message bases. Most often       the Allfix File Announce conference but most recently in FidoNet Sysops.              What I am seeing is this:              Occasionally I'll have a message base where the interactive reader always       sees new messages. But there will be messages that I can't view. For example       the last message when opened will show something like 264 of 265. But there       is no 265 displayed.               I've tried packing and purging but those don't seem to help in this       situation. If it's an active message base, when new messages arrive things       seem to repair themselves. But if the base is quieter then it could be a long       time before new messges come in.              Is there any other way to deal with issues like this?              --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)        * Origin: CaNerDUH BBS (1:134/303)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 105/81 120/340 123/131 129/305 134/0 100 101 303       SEEN-BY: 153/105 757 802 154/10 218/840 221/6 226/30 227/114 702 229/424       SEEN-BY: 229/426 428 452 550 664 700 981 1017 240/5832 249/206 307       SEEN-BY: 249/317 400 261/38 280/464 282/1038 292/854 301/1 317/3 322/757       SEEN-BY: 342/200 633/280 770/1       PATH: 134/303 101 100 153/757 221/6 229/664 426           |
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