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punktniklas / NiKom

Swedish bulletin board system for AmigaOS. Originally developed between 1990 and 1998.
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MSGID kludges from Synchronet are not interpreted correctly #137

Closed punktniklas closed 1 year ago

punktniklas commented 3 years ago

The BBS software/FidoNet reader SynchroNet generates messages that has a MSGID kludge line on the format "(something)@(FidoNet address) (timestamp)" (e.g. "29.fidonet-fn_sysop@1:2320/33 25a3ef3b")

Most other systems (including NiKom) use the format "(FidoNet address) (timestamp)" (e.g. "1:2320/33 25a3ef3b") and this is the format that NiKom expects when parsing the MSGID kludge to try to figure out to and from address of a text. As a result the interpreted address may be wrong (especially the zone part). In the example above NiKom interprets it as "29:2320/33".

The FTS (http://ftsc.org/docs/fts-0009.001) is not super clear about what the format actually should be. I believe though that Synchronet's format is wrong. Other BBS softwares seems to have had similar problems: http://wiki.mysticbbs.com/doku.php?id=whats_new_112

Since it's unlikely that Synchronet will change, NiKom needs to understand this format.

rswindell commented 11 months ago

The FTN message ID isn't for "parsing". It's for unique message identification (e.g. for dupe detection) and reply-linking. If you're parsing the message ID for some purpose (e.g. to figure out to and from address of a text), you're misusing this (optional) control information.