Subj : JamNNTPd Corrupting Message Bases
To   : Carlos Navarro
From : Accession
Date : Wed Jan 17 2024 11:09 am

Hello Carlos,

On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 23:09:08 +0100, you wrote:

 CN> This issue was fixed it JamNNTPd version 1.2 with a patch by Peter
 CN> Krefting:

 CN> https://github.com/ftnapps/jamnntpd/commit/0f66465b4f93cd436b6da19ecad7b05c9133620d

 CN>  From History.txt:
 CN> ====================
 CN> Changes in version 1.2

 CN>   - Make From addresses into valid RFC 5322 addresses.

 CN>   - JamNNTPd traditionally has used Fidonet-style addresses in the From
 CN>     header. This breaks RFC 5322 and causes some e-mail software (Alpine,
 CN>     Opera) not to display the sender address properly.

 CN>     This patch changes the From header to use a valid RFC 5322 syntax,
 CN>     albeit not a valid Internet e-mail address.

 CN> ====================

By all means you can go ahead and give it a try. But in my installations of both versions of Jamnntpd (1.0 by Johan Billings, and the updated 1.3), neither of them worked properly with Thunderbird. So maybe that patch was a fix for something that happened previously (only Opera and Alpine are mentioned in the commit), and then Thunderbird kept going on their own path into the future which could have broken something again. *shrug*

That's specifically why I went with Smapinntpd, and because the JAM libraries are newer, better and more up to date than the old jamlib that Jamnntpd uses.

 CN> Unfortunately it seems that this patch was not applied to SmapiNNTPd, at
 CN> least to the one on the ftnapps repo.

The ftnapps repo is probably never going to be updated/maintained again. I believe "Jame" or RJ Clay (the main guy) has passed on, and I'm unsure anyone else that was able to commit to that repo are around to do anything about it these days.

I can definitely try to take a look and add this patch (or at least try to modify it - since most, if not all variables and other wording has changed between Jamnntpd and Smapinntpd) to my custom version of Smapinntpd. It seems to ONLY be Thunderbird that acts wierd. Everything else I've tried (both GUI and console, like slrn) have worked fine. Granted, I haven't tried Opera or Alpine, because ... I have no interest in them. ;)

Regards,
Nick

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