Hi,
I am importing some messages into some echos via a rescan and I am getting errors from sbbsecho stating that some messages are being filtered and the filtered messages are from user a to user b instead of user a to All.
Why would these messages be filtered out of the import?

Thanks,

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On 2026 Oct 13 07:18:58, you wrote to All:

I am importing some messages into some echos via a rescan and I am getting errors from sbbsecho stating that some messages are being filtered and the
filtered messages are from user a to user b instead of user a to All. Why would these messages be filtered out of the import?

sounds like you have one of those people or addresses in your block list...

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Re: Sbbsecho Filtering Messages During Import
By: mark lewis to Khronos on Tue Oct 13 2026 09:07:26

On 2026 Oct 13 07:18:58, you wrote to All:

I am importing some messages into some echos via a rescan and I am getting errors from sbbsecho stating that some messages are being filtered and the
filtered messages are from user a to user b instead of user a to All. Why would these messages be filtered out of the import?

sounds like you have one of those people or addresses in your block list...

Where do I find this block list?
I have never heard of this option before?

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On 2026 Oct 13 11:02:46, you wrote to me:

I am importing some messages into some echos via a rescan and I am

getting errors from sbbsecho stating that some messages are being
filtered and the

filtered messages are from user a to user b instead of user a to

All. Why would these messages be filtered out of the import?

sounds like you have one of those people or addresses in your block
list...

Where do I find this block list?

without looking, i think it is in /text with the (other) .can files...

I have never heard of this option before?

if you haven't heard of it then it is unlikely that this is what you are seeing... a closer look at the mail log for that entire tossing session is needed if it really matters why...

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Re: Sbbsecho Filtering Messages During Import
By: Khronos to All on Tue Oct 13 2026 07:18 am

I am importing some messages into some echos via a rescan and I am getting errors from sbbsecho stating that some messages are being filtered and the filtered messages are from user a to user b instead of user a to All.
Why would these messages be filtered out of the import?

Post the corresponding log messages from your sbbsecho.log file. The log message should include the reason why the messages were filtered.
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Re: Sbbsecho Filtering Messages During Import
By: Digital Man to Khronos on Tue Oct 13 2026 11:46:13

Re: Sbbsecho Filtering Messages During Import
By: Khronos to All on Tue Oct 13 2026 07:18 am

I am importing some messages into some echos via a rescan and I am getting errors from sbbsecho stating that some messages are being filtered and the filtered messages are from user a to user b instead of user a to All.
Why would these messages be filtered out of the import?

Post the corresponding log messages from your sbbsecho.log file. The log message should include the reason why the messages were filtered.

Is there a setting that blocks posts from users who have an access level of 99 from having their messages being imported from other systems?
I have two examples of users on the system who have access level 99 on the system we are trying to bring messages into.

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Re: Sbbsecho Filtering Messages During Import
By: Khronos to Digital Man on Thu Oct 15 2026 02:25 pm

Post the corresponding log messages from your sbbsecho.log file. The log message should include the reason why the messages were filtered.

Is there a setting that blocks posts from users who have an access level of 99 from having their messages being imported from other systems?
I have two examples of users on the system who have access level 99 on the system we are trying to bring messages into.

I don't really understand what you're asking, but that doesn't sound like any SBBSecho setting or feature I'm aware of. Again, the log messages (in sbbsecho.log) should provide the necessary clues.
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Re: Sbbsecho Filtering Messages During Import
By: Digital Man to Khronos on Thu Oct 15 2026 13:50:29

Re: Sbbsecho Filtering Messages During Import
By: Khronos to Digital Man on Thu Oct 15 2026 02:25 pm

Post the corresponding log messages from your sbbsecho.log file. The log message should include the reason why the messages were filtered.

Is there a setting that blocks posts from users who have an access level of 99 from having their messages being imported from other systems?
I have two examples of users on the system who have access level 99 on the system we are trying to bring messages into.

I don't really understand what you're asking, but that doesn't sound like any SBBSecho setting or feature I'm aware of. Again, the log messages (in sbbsecho.log) should provide the necessary clues.

Here are the log messages on the receiving system.

2026-10-15 19:14:32 SBBSecho 3.23-Win32 master/500ef7050 Mar 03 2025 MSC 1942 (PID 6764) invoked with options: -ce
2026-10-15 19:14:32 Configured: 7 archivers, 2 linked-nodes, 1 echolists 2026-10-15 19:14:32 NetMail directory: C:\sbbs2\fido\netmail\
2026-10-15 19:14:32 Secure Inbound directory: C:\sbbs2\fido\inbound\
2026-10-15 19:14:32 Non-secure Inbound directory: C:\sbbs2\fido\nonsecure\ 2026-10-15 19:14:32 Outbound (BSO root) directory: C:\sbbs2\fido\outbound 2026-10-15 19:14:32 Read 19 areas from ../data/areas.bbs
2026-10-15 19:14:32 Read 2 areas from ../data/badareas.lst
2026-10-15 19:14:32 Read 25 echo statistics from ../data/echostats.ini 2026-10-15 19:14:32 Importing C:\sbbs2\fido\inbound\6ad15e55.pkt (type 2e, 0.5KB) from 123:0/2 to 123:0/1
2026-10-15 19:14:32 Sanitized message attributes (LOCAL) at offset 81 of packet: C:\sbbs2\fido\inbound\6ad15e55.pkt
2026-10-15 19:14:32 Filtering message from Biggieb to All
2026-10-15 19:14:32 Deleting C:\sbbs2\fido\inbound\6ad15e55.pkt (from line 6335)
2026-10-15 19:14:32 import_netmail(C:\sbbs2\fido\netmail\2.msg) returned 4 2026-10-15 19:14:32 Writing 2 areas to ../data/badareas.lst
2026-10-15 19:14:32 Deleting C:\sbbs2\ctrl\sbbsecho.bsy (from line 3175) 2026-10-15 19:14:32 SBBSecho (PID 6764) exiting with error level 0, Packets(1 imported, 0 sent)

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