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    From Tommi Koivula@2:221/6.66 to Wilfred van Velzen on Friday, May 08, 2026 09:26:43
    Hi Wilfred.

    There seems to be a problem with lowercase areatag. It appears in fconfig, but tossing to the base doesn't work. The JAM base is created with fmail and it can be accessed with golded.

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    ftools AddNew -a
    FTools-lnx64-2.3.3.1-Beta20260501 - The Fast Message Base Utility
    Copyright (C) 1991-2026 by FMail Developers - All rights reserved

    Area linux.debian.announce.security is already present

    Areas added: 0, areas already present: 1

    AddNew Active: 0.0022 sec.

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    fmail toss -b
    FMail-lnx64-2.3.3.1-Beta20260501 - The Fast Echomail Processor
    Copyright (C) 1991-2026 by FMail Developers - All rights reserved



    Scanning netmail directory...


    Tossing messages from bad message board...

    (4583) Unknown area: 'linux.debian.announce.security'

    (4584) Unknown area: 'linux.debian.announce.security'

    Tossing messages...



    Updating actual message base files...

    Netmail: 0, Personal: 0, Hudson: 0, JAMbase: 0
    Msgbase net: 0, echo: 0, dup: 0, bad: 0

    Toss Active: 0.010 sec. =================================================================


    'Tommi

    --- FMail-lnx64 2.3.3.1-B20260501
    * Origin: FPoint (2:221/6.66)
  • From Tommi Koivula@2:221/6.66 to Wilfred van Velzen on Friday, May 08, 2026 09:49:13
    Hi Wilfred.

    08 May 26 09:26, I wrote to you:

    There seems to be a problem with lowercase areatag. It appears in fconfig, but tossing to the base doesn't work. The JAM base is
    created with fmail and it can be accessed with golded.

    With FConfig it's not possible to create lowername echos, so I think it happens only with autoadding.

    'Tommi

    --- FMail-lnx64 2.3.3.1-B20260501
    * Origin: FPoint (2:221/6.66)
  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to Tommi Koivula on Friday, May 08, 2026 10:39:53
    Hi Tommi,

    On 2026-05-08 09:49:13, you wrote to me:

    There seems to be a problem with lowercase areatag. It appears in
    fconfig, but tossing to the base doesn't work. The JAM base is
    created with fmail and it can be accessed with golded.

    With FConfig it's not possible to create lowername echos, so I think it happens only with autoadding.

    I'll have to look into this... Thanks for the report.


    Bye, Wilfred.

    --- FMail-lnx64 2.3.3.1-B20260417
    * Origin: FMail development HQ (2:280/464)
  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to Tommi Koivula on Tuesday, May 12, 2026 13:11:09
    Hi Tommi,

    On 2026-05-08 10:39:53, I wrote to you:

    There seems to be a problem with lowercase areatag. It appears in
    fconfig, but tossing to the base doesn't work. The JAM base is
    created with fmail and it can be accessed with golded.

    With FConfig it's not possible to create lowername echos, so I think it
    happens only with autoadding.

    I'll have to look into this... Thanks for the report.

    I've looked. ;-)

    The 'ftools addnew' function didn't indeed convert the area name to uppercase before adding the new area. This is fixed now in my code (not yet tested and pushed to the git repo).

    Furthermore I'm going through the code to make all area name comparisons case independent. So if somehow a lowercase area name ends up in the config, it doesn't matter anymore...

    Btw: Did you try changing the area name in fconfig to uppercase, so your current problem is fixed?


    Bye, Wilfred.

    --- FMail-lnx64 2.3.3.1-B20260417
    * Origin: FMail development HQ (2:280/464)
  • From Tommi Koivula@2:221/1 to Wilfred van Velzen on Tuesday, May 12, 2026 17:45:26
    Wilfred van Velzen wrote:

    I'll have to look into this... Thanks for the report.

    I've looked. ;-)

    ;-)

    The 'ftools addnew' function didn't indeed convert the area name to
    uppercase before adding the new area. This is fixed now in my code (not
    yet tested and pushed to the git repo).

    ;-)

    Furthermore I'm going through the code to make all area name comparisons
    case independent. So if somehow a lowercase area name ends up in the
    config, it doesn't matter anymore...

    ;-)

    Btw: Did you try changing the area name in fconfig to uppercase, so your current problem is fixed?

    Yes, editing the echotag forces all typed letters uppercase.

    Also, fmail creates automatically areas.bbs. I can import that with
    fconfig, and everything will be uppercase. :)

    'Tommi

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