Subj : Possible bug with bbs.post_msg()
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Oct 11 2011 06:09 pm

 Re: Possible bug with bbs.post_msg()
 By: Nightfox to Digital Man on 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.

Okay, I've added this bug report to the to-do list.

                                           digital man

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