Subj : Scanned areas (for mandatory areas) and list compression (again)
To   : g00r00

Date : Tue Jul 12 2022 10:02 pm

Hello again g00r00!

It appears that the latest published build (1.12 A48 (Linux/64 Compiled 2022/07/11 13:00:08)) still has some trouble with "New Scan: Forced" and "QWK Scan: Forced" message bases when selecting message bases to scan if one has List Compression enabled.

(Maybe a regression of some kind, because I think I tested this in the previous 2022/07/11 build and everything seemed OK then?)

For forced scan areas, it selects the next area in the list instead of the one entered.

For example, using (Z) Set Scanned Areas from the message menu (area 1 in the list is the e-mail base, by the way, and has New Scan: Forced and QWK Scan: Forced):




Area  Scan Name

1     Yes  Private Messages (PMs)
2     No   Private Messages (PMs) (SysOp Access)
3     No   Duplicate Messages

Toggle: [#,#-#], [A]dd/[R]emove All, [?/List, Enter/Quit]:

(entering 1)




Area  Scan Name

1     Yes  Private Messages (PMs)
2     Yes  Private Messages (PMs) (SysOp Access)
3     No   Duplicate Messages

Toggle: [#,#-#], [A]dd/[R]emove All, [?/List, Enter/Quit]:

(notice that #2 got enabled instead of #1)
(entering 1 again to see if it switches off the scanning of #2)




Area  Scan Name

1     Yes  Private Messages (PMs)
2     Yes  Private Messages (PMs) (SysOp Access)
3     No   Duplicate Messages

Toggle: [#,#-#], [A]dd/[R]emove All, [?/List, Enter/Quit]:

(nope, #2 stayed on)
(entering #2 to see if that switches off the scanning of #2)

Private Messages (PMs) (SysOp Access) will NOT be scanned in new message scans.




Area  Scan Name

1     Yes  Private Messages (PMs)
2     No   Private Messages (PMs) (SysOp Access)
3     No   Duplicate Messages

Toggle: [#,#-#], [A]dd/[R]emove All, [?/List, Enter/Quit]:

(yes, at least that switched off #2)

The same thing happens from the (O) Offline (QWK) Mail menu when using (Z) Set QWK Scanned Areas from there. (I guess there it's the QWK Scan: Forced setting that comes into play, in conjunction with list compression.)


Additionally, when using (Z) Set Scanned Areas from the message menu and entering 1 to try to disable #1, this incorrectly enables #2 for the QWK scanning as well, for some reason.

However, after that, when using (Z) Set Scanned Areas from the message menu and entering 2 to try to disable #2, this correctly does *not* affect the QWK scanning.

So it's like the message scan setting might affect the QWK scan setting under certain circumstances, but not the other way around.


To summarize, it appears that when trying to *disable* a New Scan: Forced message base from the message menu, this incorrectly *enables* the next message base, and *both* for mail scans and QWK scans.

Best regards


--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/07/11 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Star Collision BBS, Uppsala, Sweden (2:201/137)