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    From Nigel Reed@VERT to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Wed Apr 8 01:38:37 2026
    open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/1116

    I just noticed this error after fetching emails with Outlook.

    mail 0017 POP3S !ERROR opening/encoding/sending /sbbs/data/file/0001.in/Z1BINKD.TXT


    The only thing in my mail log is

    Apr 8 02:31:38 bbs synchronet: mail 0017 POP3S MIME Encoding and sending /sbbs/data/file/0001.in/Z1BINKD.TXT
    Apr 8 02:31:38 bbs synchronet: mail 0017 POP3S !ERROR opening/encoding/sending /sbbs/data/file/0001.in/Z1BINKD.TXT

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  • From Rob Swindell@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Wed Apr 8 10:48:46 2026
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/1116#note_8774

    Does the file at that location exist? What's its size?

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  • From Nigel Reed@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Wed Apr 8 14:44:11 2026
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/1116#note_8775

    There is not 00001.in directory.

    I can check the backups to see if it existed before I tried to fetch the mail.

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  • From Nigel Reed@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Wed Apr 8 14:48:46 2026
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/1116#note_8776

    OK, looking at the backup there is a 0001.in directory but not any files. I don't understand why it would be looking in there. Shouldn't an attachment be saved with the email itself?

    I can maybe do some testing later.

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  • From Rob Swindell@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Wed Apr 8 18:01:27 2026
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/1116#note_8780

    I'm not sure what is meant by "saved with the email itself" - only MIME-encoded attachments are actually part of the body text and looking at the attachment, it appears to be a FidoNet NetMail attachment, which is always a discrete file and needs to be stored *somewhere*, so we store it in a user-specific "inbox" directory.

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  • From Rob Swindell@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Wed Apr 8 18:02:03 2026
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/1116#note_8780

    I'm not sure what is meant by "saved with the email itself" - only MIME-encoded attachments are actually part of the body text and looking at the attachment, it appears to be a FidoNet NetMail attachment (not MIME), and FTN NetMail attachments are always a discrete file and needs to be stored *somewhere*, so we store it in a user-specific "inbox" directory.

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  • From Nigel Reed@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Wed Apr 8 18:03:45 2026
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/1116#note_8781

    Ah ok. Well, it disappeared somehow. I'll do some testing and let you know what I find.

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