Subj : GoldED and Synchronet Question
To   : Digital Man
From : Accession
Date : Fri Nov 07 2025 17:29:26

Hey Digital!

On Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:22:10 -0800, you wrote:

 > Technically that command doesn't renumber of the messages. I believe it
 > could be messing up Golded, but it's not due to renumbering.

Ok. Yeah, it definitely messes up Golded.

On the other hand, any newsreader I've used with Synchronet doesn't have an issue with the smbutil event.

 >> If
 >> your max is 2000 messages, the 2014th message in the area that gets
 >> posted before smbutil is ran, gets changed to message number 2000.

 > Each message has a unique monotonically-increasing number that's not
 > changed by maintaining or packing a message base. 'fixsmb' has a
 > -renumber option (which understably would have a bad effect on Golded),
 > smbutil doesn't have that option.

Understood, and no.. I've never used that fixsmb option. I would imagine that the last read pointers move and Golded doesn't know they moved, or something. The same happens when using Golded to read /sbbs/data/mail. When an event of some sort kills read mail (or maybe it's killed after 30 days or something), Golded craps the bed there, too.

I just chalk it up as Golded's Synchronet support not being updated. Besides the one fix Vitaliy did somewhat recently, and the patches you've made somewhat recently.. nobody has updated that code in ages. *shrug*

Regards,
Nick

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