Re: Corrupt Message Headers
  By: Nightfox to DaiTengu on Fri Mar 29 2019 12:59 pm

 >   Re: Corrupt Message Headers
 >   By: DaiTengu to Digital Man on Fri Mar 29 2019 10:59 am
 >
 >  Da> Today, when bringing up this message to reply to it, the message header
 >  Da> was gone. Previous issues were in dove-general, and it appears to have
 >  Da> spread to dove-syncops, now. I wonder if maybe DDMessageReader is doing
 >  Da> something when marking the message as read? I'm not actually sure how
 >  Da> that works.
 >
 > I haven't seen that problem on my BBS with my reader, and haven't heard
 > about this from other sysops using my reader either.  The way it marks a
 > message as read is by loading the message header without expanded fields
 > (using MsgBase.get_msg_header()), applying the MSG_READ attribute, and then
 > saving the header back to the messagebase (using MsgBase.put_msg_header()).
 > I wouldn't expect that to corrupt the header.

It's always possible I hosed something up in a recent commit to CVS. Are you
running the latest and greatest?

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