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    From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to digitalman on Sun Feb 19 13:15:32 2017
    using 3.17 windows
    so i had a guy email me an 8mb file. when i try to dowload it via my
    email client, it freezes up sbbsctrl. when i login locally to download it, it freezes up at the pause.

    is this a normal thing when the filesize is this high or did my email
    data file get corrupted after receiving such a large file?

    i looked at my data file and it's just under 15mb

    looks like i'm gonna lose all my emails.
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  • From Lord Time@VERT/TIME to Mro on Sun Feb 19 12:08:17 2017
    using 3.17 windows
    so i had a guy email me an 8mb file. when i try to dowload it via my
    email client, it freezes up sbbsctrl. when i login locally to download it, it freezes up at the pause.

    is this a normal thing when the filesize is this high or did my email
    data file get corrupted after receiving such a large file?

    i looked at my data file and it's just under 15mb

    looks like i'm gonna lose all my emails.

    look in your \sbbs\data\file\0001.in dir. you will find it there, you might move
    the file out of there


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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Lord Time on Sun Feb 19 18:03:12 2017
    Re: Re: email size issue.
    By: Lord Time to Mro on Sun Feb 19 2017 12:08 pm

    look in your \sbbs\data\file\0001.in dir. you will find it there, you might move
    the file out of there


    it's uuencoded , so i edited it with a text editor and tried to uudecode it but no workie. i'm not sure if i need a header. anyways, not worth my time to fuck with it. they werent important govt secrets.
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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Mro on Mon Feb 20 20:56:04 2017
    Re: email size issue.
    By: Mro to digitalman on Sun Feb 19 2017 01:15 pm

    using 3.17 windows
    so i had a guy email me an 8mb file. when i try to dowload it via my
    email client, it freezes up sbbsctrl.

    Can you elaborate? Does sbbsctrl recover on its own or you have to kill the process and restart it?

    when i login locally to download it, it freezes up at the pause.

    I don't really have an explanation for that one. Synchronet (current versions) will word-wrap message text before display and if the message text is huge, that can take a while. If you view the message (locally, using the terminal server) in Raw I/O mode (Ctrl-Z to enable), does it still freeze?

    is this a normal thing when the filesize is this high or did my email
    data file get corrupted after receiving such a large file?

    No, it's not normal. I frequently send and receive multi-megabyte emails using the Synchronet mail server without a problem.

    i looked at my data file and it's just under 15mb

    looks like i'm gonna lose all my emails.

    You don't have to. Worst case, you could just delete that one email message.

    digital man

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Digital Man on Wed Feb 22 21:19:14 2017
    Re: email size issue.
    By: Digital Man to Mro on Mon Feb 20 2017 08:56 pm

    Re: email size issue.
    By: Mro to digitalman on Sun Feb 19 2017 01:15 pm

    using 3.17 windows
    so i had a guy email me an 8mb file. when i try to dowload it via my email client, it freezes up sbbsctrl.

    Can you elaborate? Does sbbsctrl recover on its own or you have to kill the process and restart it?


    no, sbbsctrl window went white and had to kill it.
    when i logged into the bbs and tried to read the email it was
    frozen at the pause. only thing that fixed the issue was
    deleting my mail data files.

    is huge, that can take a while. If you view the message (locally, using the terminal server) in Raw I/O mode (Ctrl-Z to enable), does it still freeze?



    i would try to view the msg and it would freeze right there. it was an email with a file attachment.i couldnt really read it on the bbs and when i tried to poll it using my email client, sbbsctrl froze and seems like after that i was unable to even do that.

    You don't have to. Worst case, you could just delete that one email message.

    well there was no way to go in and delete it. i guess it's just a fluke.
    no big deal,i just had the person send it another way.

    have a good one,
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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Mro on Wed Feb 22 22:32:09 2017
    Re: email size issue.
    By: Mro to Digital Man on Wed Feb 22 2017 09:19 pm

    You don't have to. Worst case, you could just delete that one email message.

    well there was no way to go in and delete it.

    Did you try using the ;MAIL sysop command? You can delete mail without reading it.

    i guess it's just a fluke.
    no big deal,i just had the person send it another way.

    have a good one,

    Okay. <shrug>

    digital man

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Digital Man on Thu Feb 23 11:35:41 2017
    Re: email size issue.
    By: Digital Man to Mro on Wed Feb 22 2017 10:32 pm

    Re: email size issue.
    By: Mro to Digital Man on Wed Feb 22 2017 09:19 pm

    You don't have to. Worst case, you could just delete that one message.

    well there was no way to go in and delete it.

    Did you try using the ;MAIL sysop command? You can delete mail witho
    it.

    i guess it's just a fluke.
    no big deal,i just had the person send it another way.

    have a good one,

    Okay. <shrug>

    digital man

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    no, i didnt think of that. i was going to do it on the web interface
    but i had probs. i made a backup just incase i need an old email and then removed the files.
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