Re: Mssg scan weirdness
  By: John Hiemenz to Digital Man on Wed Apr 24 2019 10:38 am

 >   Re: Mssg scan weirdness
 >   By: Digital Man to Hemo on Mon Apr 22 2019 10:26 pm
 >
 >  >> Running linux version 3.17c, and noticing something odd if I do
 >  >> message scan for message to myself.  Main Menu 'S'.
 >  >> I'll choose to scan all groups, display subjext only, display unread
 >  >> messages only and it will find and display 3 message subject lines in
 >  >> this group to me.
 >  DM> How did you answer the "unread messages only prompt" when you performed
 >  DM> the second scan?
 >
 > Always answering Yes to display Unread messages only.
 >
 >  >> I guess I thought the system might display the entire message, but
 >  >> the scan doesn't seem to 'hit' on these messages unless I answer Y to
 >  >> the display subjects only prompt.
 >
 >  DM> It should. Or at least it's supposed to.
 >
 > It did this time. sort of.  When loggin in and performing the scan
 > automatically, I answered No to display subjects only, and your reply in the
 > FIDO-Net conference displayed the entire message.  The same message in
 > DOVE-Net did not display.
 >
 >  DM> The "Display subjects only" prompt should do just that, only display
 >  DM> the message to/from/subject details and not the entire message header
 >  DM> and body text. Of course there is quite a different execution path when
 >  DM> scanning/displaying only subjects like that, so it wouldn't surprise me
 >  DM> if there was a bug or difference in behavior, but I'm not seeing one.
 >
 >
 > So, I found that all interesting.  Could it be the way I have DOVE-Net
 > conference configured, or is there some sort of duplicate thing happening
 > here that the system 'thinks' it has displayed this message to me, even
 > though it is in another conference?

That sounds like you're using the same internal code (thus the same database)
for more than one Messag Area in SCFG->Message Areas. Is that the case? If yes,
then that is the behavior I would expect.

 > whoah.. I just notice that the area for "Synchronet Sysops Only" isn't even
 > showing in the listing when I scan and answer 'No' to the 'display subjects
 > only' prompt.  I had not noticed that detail before.

Is that sub-board included in your "Your scan" config (&S from the main menu
when using the default/classic shell)?

 > I am now also curious at the different counts at the right side margin.
 > Those numbers appear to sometimes be different based on how I answer to
 > scan, subject only or not.  When displaying subjects only, I also see the
 > conference/group number at the left column, but not when answering No to
 > 'display subjects only'.  Just observations.

That's expected.

 > I only mentioned this topic in the event it is an issue you think needs
 > correcting.

Not that I see.

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