Subj : Compiling from source
To   : Avon
From : Oli
Date : Tue Jan 26 2021 09:43:56

Avon wrote (2021-01-26):

 A> spoon appeared to work puling down messages from NNTP.

 A> --- Spoon-Linux v1.06  Tue 26-Jan-2021 20:59:34
 A> Fetching news from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
 A> * Fetching alt.bbs.mystic
 A> There are 1 new messages (5896-5896) in this newsgroup.
[...]
 A> soupgate import failed and reported this error

 A> --- SoupGate-Linux v1.06  Tue 26-Jan-2021 21:01:02
 A> Importing from Soup to PKT
 A> Importing alt.bbs.mystic
 A> Error reading /hub/gateway/soup/00000000.msg
[...]
 A> No inbound messages found. Nothing to do.

Could you send me (or put on hold) a zip with some Soup messages so I can try to import them and see if I find the error?

 A> at the end of running import it appears to delete the AREAS file that
 A> spoon created..

It looks soupgate doesn't handle errors not always gracefully.

 A> I can also see three 0kb files created when I ran the import called

 A> 00000000.TMP
 A> 00000001.TMP
 A> 00000002.TMP

 A> I wonder why it cant read the files it's trying to import.

me too :)

 A> I have not yet tested export for soupgate nor posting the exported files
 A> (assuming they work)

I successfully exported a PKT file to Soup, at least the Soup files looked fine (as far as I can tell). But my soupgate doesn't find anything, if I use the /pkt=pktdir parameter.

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