I make for two guys of my BBS the gate of col.answers and col.announce.
One of this two (using ifmail ;) have pointed out me problem.
I'm using ifmail2.8f-tx7.7 (i don't know if problem are caused by plain
or tx, so i post here instead to Pablo...) compiled with -DLEVEL=0,
-DREFERENCES_MSC96, -DLOCAL_DOMAIN=\""gaia.peacelink.it"\".
But i make gate (for this 2 areas only) with another version of ifnews,
also 2.8f-tx7.7 but compiled with -DLEVEL=1,
-DLOCAL_DOMAIN=\""gaia.peacelink.it"\" and -DFORCE_REPLYTO.
Ok. Claudio (the guy) pointed me that some of the (long) texts in
col.answers were splitted, and was missed some part (particulary the
third was ever miss).
So:
1) I've take a long text (Italian-HOWTO ;))) and 've posted in
col.answers.
2) i've processed the news, i've cheked the
outb/014d03f8.opk/current.tmp (with less) and i've verified that the
message was splitted in 7 part of approximatly 13K.
3) I've polled
4) Claudio reported me that:
a) They received *ONE* part of the message (the first)
b) they found in debug news log messge:
duplicate <555ooo$110@anna.gaia.peacelink.it> f1016.n333!not-for-mail
duplicate <555ooo$110@anna.gaia.peacelink.it> f1016.n333!not-for-mail
duplicate <555ooo$110@anna.gaia.peacelink.it> f1016.n333!not-for-mail
duplicate <555ooo$110@anna.gaia.peacelink.it> f1016.n333!not-for-mail
And checking manually the .pkt they discover that only some part of the
message arrived (1, 2, 3, 5, 7) and that the 2, 3, 5 and 7 was refused
by inn 'cause of the same messageid (infact, duplicate).
So, pkt appear as:
[first part]
29 Oct 96 21:17:28
All
Marco Gaiarin
Prova di split, Claudio controlla!!!
MSGID: anna.gaia.peacelink.it 52127037
REPLYADDR: gaio@gaia.peacelink.it
REPLYTO: 2:333/1016.2@fidonet UUCPP
ID: TIN [UNIX 1.3 BETA-950824-color PL0]
CHRS: LATIN-1 2
RFC-Message-ID: <555ooo$110@anna.gaia.peacelink.it>
From: gaio@gaia.peacelink.it (Marco Gaiarin)
Summary: Spiega come configurare Linux in Italiano e altre informazioni
Keywords: Linux HOWTO Italian Italiano Document
[second part]
29 Oct 96 21:17:28
All
Marco Gaiarin
[part 2] Prova di split, Claudio controlla!!!
MSGID: anna.gaia.peacelink.it eaae1752
PID: TIN [UNIX 1.3 BETA-950824-color PL0]
CHRS: LATIN-1 2
RFC-Message-ID: <555ooo$110@anna.gaia.peacelink.it>
From: gaio@gaia.peacelink.it (Marco Gaiarin)
Summary: Spiega come configurare Linux in Italiano e altre informazioni
Keywords: Linux HOWTO Italian Italiano Document
...and so on (for 3, 5 and 7)
The only part accepted by inn (the first) was (in news mode):
Path: Mordor!f1016.n333!not-for-mail
Newsgroups: unimind.col.answers
Distribution: fido
From: gaio@gaia.peacelink.it (Marco Gaiarin)
X-FTN-Sender: Marco Gaiarin <Marco.Gaiarin@p2.f1016.n333.z2.fidonet.org>
Reply-To: gaio@gaia.peacelink.it
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 96 21:17:28 +0100
Subject: Prova di split, Claudio controlla!!!
Message-ID: <555ooo$110@anna.gaia.peacelink.it>
Organization: gaia.peacelink.it The Gaio's Linux Box!
X-FTN-CHRS: LATIN-1 2
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 BETA-950824-color PL0]
Summary: Spiega come configurare Linux in Italiano e altre informazioni
Keywords: Linux HOWTO Italian Italiano Document
X-FTN-AREA: COL_ANSWERS
X-FTN-MSGID: anna.gaia.peacelink.it 52127037
X-FTN-REPLYADDR: gaio@gaia.peacelink.it
X-FTN-REPLYTO: 2:333/1016.2@fidonet UUCP
X-FTN-PID: TIN [UNIX 1.3 BETA-950824-color PL0]
X-FTN-Split: already
X-FTN-Tearline: ifmail v.2.8f-tx7.7
X-FTN-Origin: gaia.peacelink.it The Gaio's Linux Box! (2:333/1016.2@fidonet)
X-FTN-SEEN-BY: 333/1016
X-FTN-PATH: 333/1016
X-FTN-PATH: 333/1016
Lines: 381
5) My opinion are:
a) the splitting alghorithm make for some reason bad message (or in
some case make the same ^AMSGID for diffrent part?!) , because the
tosser/scanner of my BBS (Claudio and i are points of the same BBS, so
only one tosser/scanner proces the pkt...) kill message 4 and 6.
This is a mystery...
b) the ifmail's tosser pick Message-Id: from ^ARFC-Message-Id: that is
the same for all message, so get dupes... this is the *real* bug, or
better, the only one that i'm *sure* ;)))
This is correct behaviuour, but don't consider the splitted message...
So, this is a known problem?! There's a fix, or, at least, i can modify
the 13K-limit?!
PS: (for tx-only) in -DLEVEL=0 ifmail don't gate X-Newsreader/X-Mailer
-> ^APID, i think this is a bug... ^APID is a standard and well known
kludge and can live also in -DLEVEL=-1 !!! ;)
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