Subj : Message Base Corruption
To   : All
From : Travis Mehrer
Date : Sat Sep 11 2021 04:20 pm

Does anyone have any strategies for dealing with Message Base corruption? For
me, it always seems to happen with Fidonet Echomail message bases. Most often
the Allfix File Announce conference but most recently in FidoNet Sysops.

What I am seeing is this:

Occasionally I'll have a message base where the interactive reader always
sees new messages. But there will be messages that I can't view. For example
the last message when opened will show something like 264 of 265. But there
is no 265 displayed. 

I've tried packing and purging but those don't seem to help in this
situation. If it's an active message base, when new messages arrive things
seem to repair themselves. But if the base is quieter then it could be a long
time before new messges come in.

Is there any other way to deal with issues like this?

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