Subj : Postie
To   : apam
From : Oli
Date : Thu Jan 26 2023 02:47 pm

apam wrote (2023-01-26):

 a> My guess is it's something to do with reply linking, because at first
 a> glance it seems ratsoft puts dodgy reply ids (7 hex chars, the 8th char
 a> is missing) and my guess is it's triggering a bug in postie.

Good catch. I looked at  the MSGID and REPLY, but I didn't thought about counting the hex chars. The REPLY is indeed missing the last char from the original MSGID. I guess it's impossible to fix that 28 year old Atari BBS / Fido software. Maybe Ratsoft 2.1c (1/9/96) has a fix?
https://milan.kovac.cc/atari/software/?folder=/COMM/BBS#RATSOFT.FTP

The buggy one says:
                        === RATSoft / ST ===
         by Steve Hughey, (c)1991-1995 R0dent Labs Software
                 version 2.1c [10/21/95 - 12:16pm]

I'll ask the sysop, if he is aware of the bug ...

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