Subj : Message Pointers / Multi-user Access
To   : Digital Man
From : Amessyroom
Date : Mon Feb 24 2025 14:31:04

  Re: Message Pointers / Multi-user Access
  By: Digital Man to Amessyroom on Sun Feb 23 2025 08:09 pm

 >> How does message pointers work with synchronet bbs? My understanding is
 >> there is a read pointer and new pointer.  But how do the move when a user
 >> logins in an reads messages, and then returns?

 DM> Message pointers are saved when a user logs-off, disconnects, or uses the
 DM> '&W' command to save them while logged-on.

 >> Can a user of synchronet bbs login more than one time, and the pointers
 >> keep in sync; or if messages are read during a ftelnet session and a
 >> synchronet telnet sessions; could the pointers get skewed/confused due to
 >> multiple access under the same account ?

 DM> The pointers are read during logon and kept in memory until
 DM> log-off/disconnect. A second login can use the '&R' command to reload the
 DM> message pointers from disk if they know the other session has read some
 DM> messages. The last one to log-off/disconnect will have *their* message
 DM> pointers saved, but only for the sub-boards they actually read messages
 DM> in.

Thanks for the explanation. I will try and login from one location when doing mail. 
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Amessyroom
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