Re: Replying to Fidonet messages
  By: Digital Man to DaiTengu on Tue Mar 26 2019 03:47 pm

 >> So I just had a similar issue crop up this morning, a user sent me a
 >> couple e-mails from his regular e-mail account. When I tried to reply
 >> to them, it came up "user not found". I quit out of the email section
 >> to start looking into it, and when I went back, the emails were no
 >> longer visible in my inbox.

 >> I noticed a few messages sent to him in dovenet in the past day or so
 >> had no header information, and I can't seem to generate/repair it with
 >> fixsmb or smbutil.  I'm not sure if they were imported like that or
 >> not. 

 >> https://i.imgur.com/A6jjn2a.png

 DM> What does chksmb report on that msg base?

 It's gotten worse, and it's happening to messages that are sent to me as well,
now. When I first read the message, the header is fine. However, if I view the
message list using DDMessageReader (M), the message is just a number with a
blank line, and the header looks like the above image i posted. (just with the
appropriate text).  I managed to reply to one yesterday by entering the proper
To: and Subject lines. 


https://i.imgur.com/fRirTOJ.png

Here's the text output from chksmb on dove-general:

CHKSMB v2.30-Linux (rev 1.67) SMBLIB 2.60 - Check Synchronet Message Base

Checking /sbbs/data/subs/dove-general Headers

98%  #7396  (51FA20)                           No Message-ID
99%  #7428  (525220)                           No Message-ID
99%  #7438  (526C20)                           No Message-ID
99%  #7443  (527A20)                           No Message-ID
99%  #7451  (529120)                           No Message-ID
99%  #7460  (52AB20)                           No Message-ID
99%  #7471  (52C920)                           No Message-ID
99%  #7475  (52D520)                           No Message-ID
100%

Checking /sbbs/data/subs/dove-general Index

100%

Checking /sbbs/data/subs/dove-general Hashes

100%

Status Total                        (=): 7476
Total Indexes                       (=): 7476
Active Indexes                      (=): 7476
Active Headers                      (=): 7476
Active Header Blocks                ( ): 21207        5,428,992 bytes used
Active Data Blocks                  ( ): 26175        6,700,800 bytes used
Header Records                      ( ): 7476
Deleted Indexes                     ( ): 0
Deleted Headers                     ( ): 0
Deleted Header Blocks               ( ): 12               3,072 bytes used
Deleted Data Blocks                 ( ): 0                    0 bytes used
Oldest Message (import)             ( ): 560 days (0 max)
Largest Message (data)              ( ): 22069 bytes (#5421)
Missing Message-IDs                 (!): 8

/sbbs/data/subs/dove-general Message Base is OK

Total Deleted Messages                 : 0                3,072 bytes used


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The "Missing Message-IDs" line up with the number of messages that are missing
header information, which makes sense.


I really haven't had much time to look into it, I had considered just blowing
the entire messagebase away and resetting my QWK account's pointers on VERT to
re-import them, but it's not urgent. I'm happy to grab any data if you want to
investigate.



 

DaiTengu

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