Subj : The latest official release
To   : Eric Renfro
From : mark lewis
Date : Thu Jul 25 2019 14:29:36


 On 2019 Jul 24 20:08:30, you wrote to Tommi Koivula:

 ER> One thing I noted was that somewhere it said not to use hpt pack, which I
 ER> understand that's only packing netmail, per hpt docs.

the problem is that some mail management tools insist on renumbering the messages when the base is packed to reduce the diskspace consumed... if your message base maintenance tool can purge, pack, and renumber as three separate and distinct tasks, go ahead with the first two and just do not renumber...

when the bases are renumbered, the message numbers are changed... news clients are the ones that store the read pointers and not the server which we're used to as sysops running BBSes... when the server changes the message numbers, the client is out of sync and it is very troublesome for the users to have to resubscribe or redownload all the messages and try to find their place again...

the best and most simple thing to do is to not purge, pack, or renumber the message bases... just keep all the messages until the base corrupts itself... with JAM having such large constraints, things should be fine for a long time in most cases...

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