Subj : Re: Newsgroup replies to
To   : Tharius
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 10:48 am

  Re: Re: Newsgroup replies to
  By: Tharius to Digital Man on Thu Sep 01 2005 02:22 pm

 > "Digital Man" <digital.man@VERT> wrote in message
 > news:4316204C.9101.dove-hlp@vert.synchro.net...
 > 
 > > > > > > > but they had a point) that my reader was posting replies to ALL
 > > >
 > > > > > > > locals and in dovenet just fine, with the TO field being the
 > > > > > > > person
 > > > > > > > responding to, however, my fidonet echomail is responding to ALL
 > > >
 > > > > > > "O, H" command from the reading message prompt. And your reply
 > > > > > > message
 > > > > > > in OE should have a "in-reply-to" header field which matches the
 > > > > > > original messages "rfc822msgid" field.
 > 
 > > The "in-reply-to" header field is part of teh NNTP article format. If you
 > > look
 > > at the details of message in Outlook Express (where it shows the NNTP
 > > headers),
 > > you should see it there. This "in-reply-to" NNTP header field gets
 > > imported
 > > into SMB has an "RFC822ReplyId" SMB header field.
 > 
 > Yes, ok I've located it now.
 > 
 > I had picked a sample thread where the problem is occouring :
 > 
 > ----(1)----------------------
 > > > Original post : Sync 3.12a
 > > > RFC822MsgID      <430F2B83.1.fidobbsdoord@aceshigh.dyn.dhs.org>
 > Posted via telnet, internal editor.
 > --------------------------
 > 
 > Above is my original message, from me, to all, posted via telnet internal to
 > Sync.  The main difference between this echo and all my others is that this
 > one has the toggle Fidonet Echomail set to yes.  All other settings seem
 > negigably different.
 > 
 > -----(2, is reply to 1)---------------------
 > > > > > RFC822ReplyID    <430F2B83.1.fidobbsdoord@aceshigh.dyn.dhs.org>
 > >
 > > Header of what message? How was this message posted? If it was posted via
 > > NNTP,
 > > then the need to check the original article header in OE and make sure it
 > > has a
 > > "message-id" header field.
 > 
 > 
 > This above is the reply to my original message.  It is from Shawn to me, but
 > I have no knowledge how it was posted. 

I'm guessing it was imported with SBBSecho.

 > This also occours with other
 > softwares in other echos, this thread was just a sample.  His software has
 > correctly filled in the to and from, etc.
 > 
 > Internally sync does not show a RFC822MsgID but does display the above
 > replyID.  The following message ID is as reported in OE after I've
 > downloaded it from the BBS.  (still no msgID as displayed by Sync, post
 > download)

FTN doesn't have a method for carrying an RFC822-compatible message-ID and
SBBSecho isn't creating one for the imported messages, so that appears to be
the problem. Your replies are referencing a dynamically-generated message-ID
which can't be foudn in the message base for cross-referencing (and finding the
original author). This will be fixed in the next release of SBBSecho. It won't
be able to fix your existing messages (already imported by SBBSecho), but newly
imported messages will have the RFC822 message-ID header fields.

Thanks for the bug report,

                                                  digital man

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