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   Message 327 of 677   
   mark lewis to Manuel Adorni   
   Personal mails   
   29 Apr 14 09:01:39   
   
   On Mon, 28 Apr 2014, Manuel Adorni wrote to mark lewis:   
      
    ml> are you saying that RA is not detecting new personal mail    
    ml> addressed to your username and/or handle (aka nick name)??   
      
    MA> username, not handle.   
      
   ok... so the answer is "yes, ra is not finding my mail"...   
      
    ml> i have no idea as i've not ever used golded... however, there are two   
    ml> lastread pointers stored for each name in the JAM lastread file... if   
    ml> these are mis-set to be higher than the missing messages message   
    ml> numbers, then RA won't find those messages because they are before the   
    ml> lastread pointer...   
      
    MA> How i can fix this?   
      
   the above is the current theory... how to fix it? there is nothing in RA that   
   you can do to fix it... the fix/adjustment has to be done in golded... what   
   that config setting or code change is, i have no idea... if golded is like   
   other readers, there may be an option to tell it which lastread index to use   
   IF it is using the wrong index... if it is using the correct index (the one   
   for your messages), then it may not be using the last-read and highest-read   
   pointers correctly...   
      
   highest-read is the highest message number you read in the base... last-read   
   is the last message number you read... to explain how this works, consider the   
   following...   
      
      100 messages in an area.   
      you read up to message 50 and then jump forward to message 75.   
      if you leave now, both pointers will point to message 75.   
      if you jump back to message 51 and leave, then last-read is 50 and   
        highest-read is 75.   
      
   the next time you access the message base, the software should start at   
   message 51 since it was the last one you read...   
      
   does that make sense?   
      
   the questions are "what index in the jlr file is golded using?" and "what is   
   golded doing with the two read pointers?"   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
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   gang of brutal facts. --Benjamin Franklin   
      
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