Subj : Possible bug with bbs.post_msg()
To   : Digital Man
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Oct 07 2011 11:44 pm

Hi DM -

I think I may have found a bug with the bbs object's post_msg() method.  If you
pass in a reply header whose "from" property is a blank string, sbbsctrl will
crash.  I found this in a script I have that lists messages in a sub-board and
allows the user to select one to read and optionally reply to it.  I'm using
the daily build from September 20.

There's a message that was posted in the Synchronet Discussion sub on Dove-Net
today (October 7) that has a blank "from" name.  My script gets a message
header from MsgBase.get_msg_header(), and in this case, it's "from" name was
blank; if I select to reply to the message, my script then passes that message
header object to bbs.post_msg() (as the 3rd parameter), and at that point, my
sbbsctrl would crash.  I tried it several times to verify the crash and was
able to reproduce it each time.

My workaround was to make sure the "from" name in the header is set to
something if it's blank - I set it to "All" in that case.  Then, when I pass
the header object to bbs.post_msg(), "All" becomes the default "To" name for
my reply, and sbbsctrl doesn't crash.

Nightfox

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