Subj : msg_your_scan question
To : Dumas Walker
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Oct 30 2025 07:08 pm
Re: msg_your_scan question
By: Dumas Walker to DIGITAL MAN on Thu Oct 30 2025 10:14 am
> Is there a reason that messages downloaded via QWK (by a user and not a QWK
> node) are not marked received/read so that they don't later show up in a
> msg_your_scan request?
>
> I have recently been trying to read messages on the BBS more, instead of by
> QWK, and the msg_your_scan is spitting out messages that are often several
> years old and long since read (hopefully!). OTOH, the msg_new_scan seems to
> honor the last read pointers and doesn't show these old messages addressed
> to me.
Assuming you're talking about messages addressed to you (not "All" or someone
else)... that sounds like a bug. Bugs filed at
https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues are more likely to be fixed. :-)
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