Subj : msg_your_scan question
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Oct 30 2025 19:08:34

  Re: msg_your_scan question
  By: Dumas Walker to DIGITAL MAN on Thu Oct 30 2025 10:14 am

 > Is there a reason that messages downloaded via QWK (by a user and not a QWK
 > node) are not marked received/read so that they don't later show up in a
 > msg_your_scan request?
 >
 > I have recently been trying to read messages on the BBS more, instead of by
 > QWK, and the msg_your_scan is spitting out messages that are often several
 > years old and long since read (hopefully!).  OTOH, the msg_new_scan seems to
 > honor the last read pointers and doesn't show these old messages addressed
 > to me.

Assuming you're talking about messages addressed to you (not "All" or someone
else)... that sounds like a bug. Bugs filed at https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues are more likely to be fixed. :-)
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