Howdy All;

I noticed that I am unable to reply to FidoNet style messages. Every single Network i have setup, when I try to reply to a message, it says "User not found". I've poured over the settings and I'm stumped. Any ideas?


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On 2019 Mar 24 18:55:26, you wrote to All:

I noticed that I am unable to reply to FidoNet style messages. Every single Network i have setup, when I try to reply to a message, it says "User not found". I've poured over the settings and I'm stumped. Any ideas?

my eWAG is your message area settings do not indicate the area is a networked area...

SCFG
message areas
select a FTN group
message sub-boards
select a board
network options
fidonet echomail = yes

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Re: Replying to Fidonet messages
By: mark lewis to Ace on Sun Mar 24 2019 10:22 pm

my eWAG is your message area settings do not indicate the area is a networked area...
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I i'm 99% positive you are correct. All of my fido bases were set that way. Thank you so much


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Re: Replying to Fidonet messages
By: Ace to All on Sun Mar 24 2019 06:55 pm

Howdy All;

I noticed that I am unable to reply to FidoNet style messages. Every

single

Network i have setup, when I try to reply to a message, it says "User not found". I've poured over the settings and I'm stumped. Any ideas?

Are you referring to a "reply in mail" command? What command key exactly from what prompt? Are you sure you've configured the message area as being FidoNet-networked?

A copy/paste of the message header and the exact error message would be helpful.

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Re: Replying to Fidonet messages
By: Ace to All on Sun Mar 24 2019 06:55 pm

I noticed that I am unable to reply to FidoNet style messages. Every single Network i have setup, when I try to reply to a message, it says "User not found". I've poured over the settings and I'm stumped. Any ideas?

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

I checked his user account via uedit, and nothing looked corrupted, so I'm not really sure what's going on. I haven't had time to dig through logs yet. I know I've had a few "out of memory" errors pop up recently, one causing the entire BBS to crash (I have no idea if he was online or not at the time).

Anyway, I thought I'd chime in, in case it's related.

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Re: Replying to Fidonet messages
By: DaiTengu to Ace on Mon Mar 25 2019 01:20 pm

Re: Replying to Fidonet messages
By: Ace to All on Sun Mar 24 2019 06:55 pm

I noticed that I am unable to reply to FidoNet style messages. Every single Network i have setup, when I try to reply to a message, it says "User not found". I've poured over the settings and I'm stumped. Any ideas?

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

What does chksmb report on that msg base?

digital man

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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

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.





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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

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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