Subj : SBBSecho issues
To   : All
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Nov 11 2017 03:54 pm

If you're a Synchronet sysop on a FidoNet-Technolog-Network, please read this:

1. There has been a very-long-standing bug with regards to routing NetMail
through every known version/revision of SBBSecho: When SBBSecho would packetize
outbound netmail (this includes inbound netmail for a foreign address which was
then being routed), it would use the origination address of the NetMail
messages as the origination address of the created outbound packet. This would
work fine for all scenarios *except* routing NetMail, i.e. forwarding netmail
messages on that were received on your system but were not addressed to your
system. So, if there's any possibility of NetMail being routed through your
system (e.g. you have both uplinks and downlinks), then *please* update to the
current v3.0x build (this issue was fixed on Nov-9 in v3.02, r3.57).

2. There was a recently introduced bug (on Oct-29 in v3.01, r3.47): If SBBSecho
was run in a mode to both toss (import) and scan (export) in the same
invocation, it could and likely would cross-link the message base of the last
imported EchoMail message with the message bases being scanned for outbund
EchoMail. This was the cause of recent old cross-posted messages on FidoNet and
was fixed on Nov-7 in v3.01, r3.52. In the unlikely event that you running
v3.01 r3.47-r3.51, please update to a newer or older version ASAP.

3. If you are using SMBUTIL to auto-post messages (e.g. advertisements, echo
rules, file announcements) on FidoNet-style networks, please be aware that
SMBUTIL does not generate message-IDs and this can be a problem for
detecting/debugging cross-posted messages, dupes, etc. Please consider using
the new exec/postmsg.js script (invoked using JSexec) as a suitable drop-in
replacement for the "SMBUTIL i" command:
http://cvs.synchro.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/exec/postmsg.js

Thank you for your attention. :-)

                                           digital man

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