Subj : Network messsage information missing
To   : Accession
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Oct 20 2015 07:59 am

  Re: Network messsage information missing
  By: Accession to Nightfox on Mon Oct 19 2015 16:45:14

 Ni>> I think GoldEd+ looks nice, but I was disappointed when I found that
 Ni>> it doesn't seem to handle Synchronet's message group prefixes (and
 Ni>> thus, it got confused with a lot of my message areas). I suppose
 Ni>> there might be a way around that though - I suppose I'd just have to
 Ni>> look/ask around. 

 Ac> It does handle SMB, it's just not documented. I think you have to point
 Ac> the configuration to the msgs.cnf file or something in those lines. That
 Ac> and if you pack/renumber your message bases, Golded loses track of the
 Ac> last read pointers and considers every message in the area as new again.

 Ac> In other words, you'd have to tinker with Synchronet a bit to make it work
 Ac> perfectly. You also can't actually use it from the BBS, so there's that
 Ac> too. 

Yeah, I did all that, and I did get it to work with Synchronet, to an extent.. 
I found that I had to remove the internal code prefixes in SCFG order to get
GoldEd+ to understand my message bases.  For instance, in SCFG, I have
Synchronet set up to prefix my Dove-Net internal codes with "DOVE_", so the
"General" area, which normally has an internal code of DOVE-GEN, becomes
DOVE_DOVE-GEN.  GoldEd+ didn't deal with that very well - GoldEd+ would see
that the "General" area should have an internal code of "DOVE-GEN", and it
wasn't reading it correctly because it's actually "DOVE_DOVE-GEN" on my system.

When I posted about this last time (several months ago), I remember someone
saying Synchronet added the internal code prefixes after GoldEd+ implemented
its Synchronet support, so it sounded like GoldEd+ simply has limited
Synchronet support.  I'm not sure if there's a good way around the issue
without GoldEd+ being updated.

Nightfox

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