• SBBSecho issues

    From Digital Man@VERT to All on Sat Nov 11 15:54:26 2017
    If you're a Synchronet sysop on a FidoNet-Technolog-Network, please read this:ãã1. There has been a very-long-standing bug with regards to routing NetMailãthrough every known version/revision of SBBSecho: When SBBSecho would packetizeãoutbound netmail (this includes inbound netmail for a foreign address which wasãthen being routed), it would use the origination address of the NetMailãmessages as the origination address of the created outbound packet. This wouldãwork fine for all scenarios *except* routing NetMail, i.e. forwarding netmailãmessages on that were received on your system but were not addressed to yourãsystem. So, if there's any possibility of NetMail being routed through yourãsystem (e.g. you have both uplinks and downlinks), then *please* update to theãcurrent v3.0x build (this issue was fixed on Nov-9 in v3.02, r3.57).ãã2. There was a recently introduced bug (on Oct-29 in v3.01, r3.47): If SBBSechoãwas run in a mode to both toss (import) and scan (export) in the sameãinvocation, it could and likely would cross-link the message base of the lastãimported EchoMail message with the message bases being scanned for outbundãEchoMail. This was the cause of recent old cross-posted messages on FidoNet andãwas fixed on Nov-7 in v3.01, r3.52. In the unlikely event that you runningãv3.01 r3.47-r3.51, please update to a newer or older version ASAP.ãã3. If you are using SMBUTIL to auto-post messages (e.g. advertisements, echoãrules, file announcements) on FidoNet-style networks, please be aware thatãSMBUTIL does not generate message-IDs and this can be a problem forãdetecting/debugging cross-posted messages, dupes, etc. Please consider usingãthe new exec/postmsg.js script (invoked using JSexec) as a suitable drop-inãreplacement for the "SMBUTIL i" command:ãhttp://cvs.synchro.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/exec/postmsg.jsããThank you for your attention. :-)ãã digital manããSynchronet/BBS Terminology Definition #5:ãBinkD = Binkley DaemonãNorco, CA WX: 69.8øF, 57.0% humidity, 8 mph NNE wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrsã---ã þ Synchronet þ Vertrauen þ Home of Synchronet þ [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.netã