Subj : Message Pointers
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Jul 13 2025 14:11:09

  Re: Message Pointers
  By: Dumas Walker to digital man on Sun Jul 13 2025 09:16 am

 > A user has reported an issue with message pointers.  They are downloading
 > QWK packets.  I also read most of my mail via QWK and have not noticed an
 > issue.
 > My system info:
 >
 > Synchronet BBS for Linux Version 3.20a
 > Revision a Apr 27 2024 09:49 SMBLIB 3.00 GCC 12.2.0

I'd upgrade to v3.20d or later.

 > For some reason your board loses me from time to time. It seems random.

User's message scan pointers are stored in data/user/<user-num>.subs, if you want to monitor changes to the user's file, look for any corruption, etc.

Also, if the user is logging on to multiple nodes or services (e.g. web, nntp, ftp, mail, and telnet, ssh, or rlogin) concurrently, that can cause race-conditions and user-surprises with message scan pointers. That'd be something to keep an eye on as well.
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