• MultiMail under Linux

    From Flavio Bessa@4:801/188 to All on Sun Mar 29 15:08:11 2020
    Hello,

    I am configuring MultiMail to use it with Linux, but I am experiencing an
    error message when I try to uncompress the packet (I am using zip/unzip as
    the archiver)

    I am using the default zip/unzip commands at the .mmailrc file. Is that something that I need to change?

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Flavio Bessa on Sun Mar 29 11:25:22 2020
    Re: MultiMail under Linux
    By: Flavio Bessa to All on Sun Mar 29 2020 15:08:11


    I am using the default zip/unzip commands at the .mmailrc
    file. Is that something that I need to change?

    i have this in my .mmailrc... not sure if it is default or not... i've not seen problems so far...

    # Decompression commands (must include an option to junk/discard paths!) arjUncompressCommand: arj e
    zipUncompressCommand: unzip -joLq
    lhaUncompressCommand: lha efi
    rarUncompressCommand: rar e -cl -o+ -inul
    tarUncompressCommand: tar zxf
    unknownUncompressCommand: xxuncompress

    # Compression commands (must include an option to junk/discard paths!) arjCompressCommand: arj a -e
    zipCompressCommand: zip -jkq
    lhaCompressCommand: lha af
    rarCompressCommand: rar u -ep -inul
    tarCompressCommand: tar zcf
    unknownCompressCommand: xxcompress



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  • From Dan Clough@1:123/115 to Flavio Bessa on Sun Mar 29 15:43:00 2020
    Flavio Bessa wrote to All <=-


    I am configuring MultiMail to use it with Linux, but I am
    experiencing an error message when I try to uncompress the packet
    (I am using zip/unzip as the archiver)

    What error message...? Are your zip/unzip commands functional
    from a normal command line?

    I am using the default zip/unzip commands at the .mmailrc file.
    Is that something that I need to change?

    Those commands in my .mmailrc file are default and work fine.



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  • From Flavio Bessa@4:801/189.1 to mark lewis on Mon Mar 30 01:04:08 2020
    Hello mark.

    29 Mar 20 11:25, you wrote to me:

    I am using the default zip/unzip commands at the .mmailrc
    file. Is that something that I need to change?

    i have this in my .mmailrc... not sure if it is default or not... i've
    not seen problems so far...

    zipUncompressCommand: unzip -joLq
    zipCompressCommand: zip -jkq

    Yeah, those are the defaults, they are the same I have here.

    The error message I get is:

    "End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
    a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
    latter case the centra directory and zipfile comment will be found on
    the last disk(s) of this archive."

    Flavio

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  • From Flavio Bessa@4:801/189.1 to Dan Clough on Mon Mar 30 01:06:43 2020
    Hello Dan.

    29 Mar 20 15:43, you wrote to me:

    What error message...? Are your zip/unzip commands functional
    from a normal command line?

    Yes, I can execute zip and unzip from a normal command line.

    I am using the default zip/unzip commands at the .mmailrc file.
    Is that something that I need to change?

    Those commands in my .mmailrc file are default and work fine.

    That's weird.

    Flavio

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  • From Dan Clough@1:123/115 to Flavio Bessa on Mon Mar 30 07:54:00 2020
    Flavio Bessa wrote to mark lewis <=-

    I am using the default zip/unzip commands at the .mmailrc
    file. Is that something that I need to change?

    i have this in my .mmailrc... not sure if it is default or not... i've
    not seen problems so far...

    zipUncompressCommand: unzip -joLq
    zipCompressCommand: zip -jkq

    Yeah, those are the defaults, they are the same I have
    here.

    The error message I get is:

    "End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file
    is not a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part
    archive. In the latter case the centra directory and zipfile
    comment will be found on the last disk(s) of this archive."

    Sounds like the QWK packet you are trying to open is not a ZIP
    file... On the BBS you're getting the QWK packet from, go into
    the "packet configuration" menu and make sure the archive type is
    set to "ZIP".



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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Flavio Bessa on Mon Mar 30 09:55:06 2020
    Re: MultiMail under Linux
    By: Flavio Bessa to mark lewis on Mon Mar 30 2020 01:04:08


    zipUncompressCommand: unzip -joLq
    zipCompressCommand: zip -jkq

    Yeah, those are the defaults, they are the same I have here.

    ok, good...

    The error message I get is:

    "End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not

    you have a flawed zip file, then... there is little recourse other than to download another one that is hopefully complete...

    another question, though, is what is the BBS using to zip with and are those zip parameters correct?

    then there's the question of the zip file's size... if the BBS is older, it may have a limit on the size of the zip file... depending on the number of messages the system selected to pack for you, this may have driven the size of the zip over the limit...


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  • From Flavio Bessa@4:801/189.1 to mark lewis on Sun Apr 5 16:35:32 2020
    Hello mark.

    30 Mar 20 09:55, you wrote to me:

    "End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file
    is not

    you have a flawed zip file, then... there is little recourse other
    than to download another one that is hopefully complete...

    then there's the question of the zip file's size... if the BBS is
    older, it may have a limit on the size of the zip file... depending on
    the number of messages the system selected to pack for you, this may
    have driven the size of the zip over the limit...

    You guys were right: I downloaded a smaller QWK file from the
    BBS and all went fine.

    Thanks a lot!

    Flavio

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Flavio Bessa on Sun Apr 5 20:33:20 2020
    Re: MultiMail under Linux
    By: Flavio Bessa to mark lewis on Sun Apr 05 2020 16:35:32


    then there's the question of the zip file's size... if the BBS is
    older, it may have a limit on the size of the zip file... depending on
    the number of messages the system selected to pack for you, this may
    have driven the size of the zip over the limit...

    You guys were right: I downloaded a smaller QWK file from the
    BBS and all went fine.

    glad to be of service ;)


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