Subj : Re: Message new scan with and without /G?
To   : g00r00
From : Bj”rn Wiberg
Date : Thu Jul 29 2021 09:12 am

Hello g00r00!

Thank you for your reply!

On 28 Jul 2021, g00r00 said the following...
 g0> When you reset your last scan date it does not reset the flag on each
 g0> individual message that determines if you read it before
 g0> or not.  The /noread option tells Mystic to ignore messages that have
 g0> been presented to you once before regardless of what your last read
 g0> pointer says.

Ah, thanks -- I vaguely remember noting in the past that "new" and "read" is not the same thing, and you confirmed this. :)

By the way, is there a way to un-read a message by editing it?

 g0> Its easy to get lost in all of the options Mystic has for ways to scan. 
 g0> In the long run its a good thing because the scanning in Mystic is super
 g0> flexible, but it can take a bit to sort through it all.  Even I have

I think it's all working perfectly fine now. :)

My prelogin now consists of an e-mail scan -- to ensure that new, unread e-mails will always be found regardless of users' message scan settings (even though I *do* have set Private Messages to New Scan: Forced and QWK Scan: Forced, because I think that area should always be scanned) -- and a global personal scan.

 g0> to experiment if you want to!  For now just assume its only guarenteed
 g0> to work in the /P scan!

Yep!

Many thanks!

Best regards
Bj”rn

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