Re: Reading the scan_ptr for the 'mail sub'
By: Nightfox to Khelair on Sun Mar 22 2015 08:29:47
Ni> I've been working on a new message reader, and I've found that the
Ni> msg_area, and it seems to me that the "mail" is a special case in that
Ni> the msg_area.grp, msg_ara.sub, etc. arrays don't seem to be defined for
Ni> the "mail" area. Those arrays seem to be only defined for the
Ni> sub-boards. So, I don't think there is a last-read pointer, etc.
Ni> defined for the "mail" area. If you want to find the last read message
Ni> for a user in the "mail" area, you'll need to go through all messages in
Ni> the "mail" area, look for the ones written to the current logged-in
Ni> user, and look at the 'attr' field in the message headers and find the
Ni> last one that has the MSG_READ attribute set. For example, something
[snip]
Wow. Well, not the answer that I was hoping for, but an excellent response
for information and solution. Much appreciated. :)
-D/K
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