Subj : Pascal & CGI
To   : Stephen Hayes
From : mark lewis
Date : Wed May 19 2004 12:32 pm

 SH>> Users can read netmail messages addressed to other users.

 JB>> sounds like a software problem not a failing of Jam, the JAM
 JB>> format supports the Private flag...
 JB>> either your tosser or your BBS is ignoring it.

 SH> JAM is software;

JAM is not software... JAM is a message storage method...

 SH> the problem was also with messages entered
 SH> on the BBS, so it couldn't have been the tosser.

right, that points to a problem in the BBS software...

 SH> And messages were private under RA when using other message
 SH> bases.

right... the one other format that RA supports, HMB, was well tested and had 
years of fleshing out... JAM was new on the scene... you've not stated what 
version of RA, either...

 SH> But it should be easy to test - if you are using JAM for
 SH> netmail, try it out and see. Add a couple of users as aliases
 SH> of yourself, wihtout sysop security, and enter a few private
 SH> messages, and then see if they can read each other's
 SH> messages.

i tried that many many many times during the beta cycles and have never been 
able to reproduce the problem... even now, my system runs a beta of RA and i 
don't see these problems...

now, i'm also wondering if there is something else in our terminology and/or 
setups that may be different... on my system, i have only two local areas... 
one that allows public and private messages and the second one is readonly 
postings by my new files announcer... i have one netmail area that is serviced 
by my mail tosser for inbound and outbound netmail... you don't send netmail 
from a local user to another local user... you use the local private capable 
message area for that... i also have another area that is used for email out of 
the system thru the gateway to the internet... all the other 200 or so areas i 
carry on my system are echomail areas... every single area on my system is 
JAM...

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