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 Message 380 
 Rob Swindell to Marc Lewis 
 Re: Problem with legacy tosser (Squish)  
 07 Dec 20 20:07:54 
 
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  Re: Re: Problem with legacy tosser (Squish) and Sync's MSGID
  By: Marc Lewis to Rob Swindell on Mon Dec 07 2020 09:36 pm

 > Hello Rob.
 >
 >  regarding RE: Problem with legacy tosser (Squish) and Sync's MSGID >
 >
 >
 >  > Synchronet's NetMail messages are the ONLY ones that cause Squish to go
 >  > nuts... In fact, only a couple years ago or so, Squish had zero problems
 >  > with NetMail messages from Synchronet...
 >
 >  RS> So is the problem software Squish or NetMgr or both? From the more
 >  RS> recent messages you posted, it seems the problem program is called
 >  RS> "NetMgr".
 >
 >  RS> Looking through the Squish and sqafix source code on github, I
 >  RS> could not locate any inappropriate message-ID "origaddr" parsing
 >  RS> (although I did find some in the Maximus source).
 >
 > Rob, the way my system works is Squish first tosses stuff to the appropriate
 > directory.  In the case of NetMail it goes into the NetMail directory.
 > NetMgr then reads the message(s) and checks its destination Node number
 > against the current NodeList. Messages bound for an unlisted address (NOT
 > including the Point address) are bounced. So, it comes into play after
 > Squish has done it's thing.

So then Squish is likely handling the NetMail messages correctly (?). You
could send one of the NetMail messages (.msg files) my way for a look-see or
use a tool, such as fmsgdump.exe to dump the message header and kludge/control
lines and paste those here. But I suspect there's no incompatibility with
Squish involved here.

 > One thing I'm going to do as a test, is convert the NetMail area to Squish
 > format. Not sure how the attendant programs that work on NetMail messages
 > will react, but I'm going to give it a shot.

Or just get rid of NetMgr as it appears to be the program that is trying to
parse the MSGID's. (?).

 > I'm going to as another question relative to the actual @MSGID line that
 > Synchronet generates.  Since it contains a message number and an @ symbol
 > with no spaces, what would happen if you separated the ####@ from the rest
 > of the line with a space?

Then the MSGID would be 3 fields, separated by spaces. I tried that once and
got a lot of flack on FidoNet about it and indeed: the spec is 2
space-separated fields with the second/last field being 8 hexadecimal digits.
That's it. So I complied.
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                                            digital man

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