Subj : Not tossing-where's the mail??
To : Bill Gordon
From : mark lewis
Date : Fri Nov 23 2012 10:59 am
NOTE: this is a resend of this reply as a new message... it seems that the
previous one didn't get propogated on 2012 Oct 30 when it was written...
BG> ! 28 Oct 22:45:00 FSTE Messages would be tossed beyond HMB limits
BG> (MSGTXT.BBS overflow)
BG> * 28 Oct 22:45:00 FSTE Active 0:00:00 (Extern 0:00:00)
BG> + 28 Oct 22:45:00 FSTE end, FastEcho 1.46
BG> What would the problem/cause be, and how to fix it?
you have too many messages in your HMB... it has some pretty strict
limitations...
Max areas : 255 (depending on software. quickbbs only allowed 200)
Max messages : 32767 (this is ALL messages in ALL areas)
Max size : 16Meg (MSGTXT.BBS holds 65535 255byte records)
to be specific, those messages are telling you that you are running into the
third limitation...
your only choice is to trim the numbers of messages you have stored and pack
the base down... either one of the second two will cause problems like you are
seeing... if either of those limits are broached, the entire message base is
corrupt and the only option is to delete all the MSG*.BBS files and start all
over again...
