Re: Replying to Fidonet messages
  By: DaiTengu to Digital Man on Wed Mar 27 2019 05:11 pm

 >   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.

If you disable DDMessageReader, do you still have an issue?

 > 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

 > Missing Message-IDs                 (!): 8

Message Message-IDs should not be a big deal.

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

Well it's certainly possible to import messages without message-IDs. Perhaps if
you ran "chksmb -e" you'd see a pattern with the messages that are missing
message-IDs and identify the cause. In any case, it's not a fatal issue
normally.

 > 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.

The 'chksmb -e' output should be enlightening. But like DDMessageReader should
also be able to gracefully handle that situation. It's not terribly uncommon to
import messages without Message-IDs.

                                            digital man

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