Subj : Problem with a "ghost" netmail
To   : Al
From : ogg
Date : Sat May 10 2025 11:28 am

On 10 May 2025, Al said the following...
 
 Al> > I have a "ghost" message in my netmail message area that I can't get rid 
 Al> > I've deleted all messages in the area and the Indexed Message Reader stil
 Al> > shows 1 message remaining.  When I select the area, there are no messages
 Al> > left.
 Al> 
 Al> The message may be addressed to another user on your BBS, or perhaps the
 Al> name is misspelled.
 Al> 
 Al> Mystic will not show messages to you unless they are addressed to you,
 Al> even if you are the SysOp.
 Al> 
 Al> You might have to inspect the jam base files and figure out who the
 Al> message is addressed to and then change your user name or alias and then
 Al> log in to read the message and also delete it. Then you can pack and
 Al> purge your message base to get rid of it.
 Al> 

Your suggestion to inspect the files yielded the issue.  It appears that one
of the files had become corrupted and actually had a copy of another base
file message embedded within it.  Since it was a full copy of another message,
it must have appeared to be a proper message.  Deleting the offending portion
didn't correct the issue.  I actually deleted the netmail echo area including
the data and recreated it.  That took care of it.  Thanks for the lead!

|11ogg
|11SysOp, Altair IV BBS
|11altairiv.ddns.net:2323

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