Hi! Paul,

On 06 Dec 16 21:52, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

 Wv>>  Do you have a message editor installed (like golded), so you can
 Wv>> check what is going on in your hudson message base?

 PH> No but let me know where these files should be and what they should
 PH> look like as I suspect they are simply not there

Just guessing from your previously posted config and a quick browse of the
doco... Your 'NETMAIL' directory should have *.Msg files in it.  The 'USENET'
directory ought to have all your JAM areas and the Hudson board areas.  The
Hudson config should look something like this...

File Name         Size        Allocated   Modified
--------------------------------------------------
LASTREAD BBS           400           512  17/08/01
MSGHDR   BBS             0             0  18/08/01
MSGIDX   BBS             0             0  02/09/06
MSGINFO  BBS           406           512  06/12/16
MSGTOIDX BBS             0             0  02/09/06
MSGTXT   BBS             0             0  18/08/01

(I think Mark Lewis posted a copy of his recently, too.)  Of course yours will
be somewhat more fleshed out, as I see you're bumping the size limit.  Mine is
only enough to have since FastEcho insists on needing one.  Your problem with
the LastRead.Bbs file nags me into thinking that you may need an editor to
create one; simply pointing an editor at the Hudson areas prompts the editor to
 create one... IIRC.

Find yourself a Golded archive and install it.  Generally a default config file
 ought to work but you may care to do a little obvious fine-tuning, and you
/will/ most certainly have to point Golded at your message areas configured in
FMail.  Quoting from the Golded dox...

// GoldED can get area setup from many other programs.
// Uncomment and edit one of these for a quick and simple area setup.
;AREAFILE FastEcho      C:\FIDO\UTIL\FE\
;AREAFILE AreasBBS      M:\HUDSON\AREAS.BBS

Using an exported Areas.Bbs file from FMail is your best & simplest option (the
 only downside is that area descriptions aren't dispayed).  Sure there's an
option to use an FMail config file (I didn't quote that) but it's problematical
 as to whether Golded could use the latest FMail version.

You're welcome to FREQ a copy of the version I'm using for this note.  The
archive is called gpw32-115-20130111.zip; if you're stuck for a config file, I
can send you copies of my .Cfg files.  Just tell me.

Cheers,
Paul.

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