Subj : Bad packets
To   : jcs
From : deon
Date : Thu Mar 16 2023 11:10 am

Hey Joshua,

Your system is sending me bad packets - most look like netmails to areafix.

Today at 9:23 (about 100 mins ago), your system sent me m1ff001d.pkt

7 09:23:37  pkt: /fido/mailer/in/m1ff001d.tos [21:3/177]
1 09:23:37  Netmail: To the HUB address [21:3/100] (To:areafix <- From:jcs).
8 09:23:37  areafix: FSX_GEN rescanned 30 mails to 21:3/177
1 09:23:38  filter.pl: on_robotmsg [areafix]
L 09:23:38  Wrote Netmail: 21:3/100.0 -> 21:3/177.0
8 09:23:38  areafix: Successfully done for 21:3/177
A 09:23:38  There are 7 bytes of unknown data at the end of pkt file!
1 09:23:38  filter.pl: pkt_done
A 09:23:38  Renaming pkt/arc to .bad

The issue with the packet is that there was 7 bytes of unknown data at the end...

000000c0  2e 30 0d 25 52 45 53 43  41 4e 20 46 53 58 5f 47  |.0.%RESCAN FSX_G|
000000d0  45 4e 20 33 30 00 0d 0d  2d 2d 2d 20 0d 00 00     |EN 30...--- ...|

The packet should finish with 0x00 0x00 (as it does), and each message is terminated with 0x00 - so  I'm not sure why your packets are including:

0d 0d  2d 2d 2d 20 0d

before the end of packet marker 0x00 0x00?

Also your packets received here at dated 1 Jan 1970:

-rw-r--r--  1 root root    223 Jan  1  1970 m1ff001d.bad

You might want to look at that too.


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