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QWK woes

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by: Digital Man - Tue, 13 Feb 2024 23:20 UTC

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To: poindexter FORTRAN
Re: More QWK woes
By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Thu Feb 08 2024 06:55 am

> Astute readers will recall that I incorrectly gave my DOVEnet message
> areas static QWK conference numbers. I've changed them all to Dynamic,
> and now I'm seeing TECH_TALK messages in SYNC_DATA - but only in my
> Multimail, my QWK reader. If I read locally on the board, they're in the
> correct area.
>
> I knew that some settings were stored on the BBS, found the
> \sbbs\data\user directory. I tried moving all of the 0000.* files
> corresponding to me out, but I'm still seeing TECH_TALK messages in the
> incorrect area.
>
> Has anyone seen this before?

Is it possible you have a stale CONTROL.DAT file that Multimail is using?
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