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    From Aaron Grasswell@3:770/100 to All on Sat Feb 13 09:22:00 2021
    Hi Everyone,

    I have a strange (most likely caused by me) issue with D'Bridge not picking
    up echomail written by users on my BBS.

    I run RemoteAccess (running in a DOS session in Windows) and D'Bridge
    (running simultaneously in another DOS session).

    I can receive echo/netmail no problem. D'Bridge routes the messages into
    RA's messagebase without any issue.
    But if I write a message in an echo area from within RA, DB doesn't see the message, even thought the dbridge.rse or .rsn files are created (I can see DB checking when the .rs* files are created, but no echomail is found/send on
    it's merry way).

    I can "force" DB to send netmail written in RA by using MBUTIL and extracting the *.MSG mail file from RA's netmail area and putting it into DB's Netmail directory.

    I also find, if I set DB's directory path for netmail storage to be QuickBBS (area 100, which it is in RA) instead of Fido, I can no longer access netmail within DB (if I try, DB hangs with a perpetual "wait...").
    But if I leave it as Fido, I can acces netmail within DB just nothing gets injected into RA's netmail.

    Has anyone else who runs/ran RA and DB ever seen something like this?
    I hope that all made sense. lol

    I'd also like to say thanks Nto ick for all your help and suggestions!
    Learning lots! :)

    Cheers
    everyone.
    Take care
    Aaron/DW
    Dark Systems BBS
    bbs.dsbbs.ca:23

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (3:770/100)
  • From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to Aaron Grasswell on Sat Feb 13 01:37:37 2021
    On 13 Feb 21 09:22:00, Aaron Grasswell said the following to All:

    I have a strange (most likely caused by me) issue with D'Bridge not picking up echomail written by users on my BBS.

    I run RemoteAccess (running in a DOS session in Windows) and D'Bridge (running simultaneously in another DOS session).

    This may be a record-locking problem with the message database. Please try writing a message from RA with the D'Bridge instance shutdown. Then shutdown
    RA and run D'Bridge and scan the Echobase. Let me know what happens.

    Nick

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  • From Aaron Grasswell@3:770/100 to Nick Andre on Sun Feb 14 03:26:59 2021
    Hi Nick,

    Thanks for the suggestion.
    I tried several messages in several different echo areas across several different nets with DB not running, but none sent when I loaded DB after and forced mail / created the.rse.

    The weird thing is, every so often I'll see a
    "got it" reply to one of my test messages, but I have no idea how/when it sent and why 99.999% of the other messages I try don't send. lol

    I do appreciate your help!
    Aaron

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (3:770/100)