Subj : hpt squish corruption
To   : Phil Kimble
From : Markus Reschke
Date : Wed Jun 06 2018 15:43:18

Hello Phil!

Jun 06 05:59 2018, Phil Kimble wrote to andrew clarke:

 ac>> There are some situations in Linux/BSD where a Squish base get 
 ac>> corrupted when two programs (eg. HPT and something else) write to the 
 ac>> same messagebase at the same time.

 PK> That could be the case. Where I was in msged while hpt was tossing 
 PK> new mail. 

Writing echomail in msged while hpt is tossing (same echo) can cause a bad 
lastread counter. But this automatically fixed by the next tossing run. I had a 
few broken squish database files so far and the best solution was to simply 
delete them. The tools for fixing squish files aren't very helpful.

I'd prefer a rock solid database-like daemon instead of the current squish API. 


ciao,
Markus

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