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Subject: imsg on incoming echomail Date: Sun Jan 19 2025 01:11 pm
From: Digital Man To: deon

  Re: imsg on incoming echomail
  By: deon to Digital Man on Sun Jan 19 2025 11:32 pm

 > When I connected and saw that idle node still logged in, I used ;spy 1 to
 > check to see if anything was displayed. I didnt expect anything to display
 > since the 0001.msg file was blank (and nothing was).

;spy only shows *new* text sent to the client on that node however. If the  mess
age was already read/displayed (before you started spying), you wouldn't see it.

 > And the fact that no *.msg files changed, means that the message was never
 > sent nor consumed right?

Normally, yes, but not if something just read and truncated the .msg file.
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