[nos-bbs] JNOS error tracking new messages

[Maiko Langelaar]

I'm not getting this relationship to AA##### at all :(

Not seeing that in the code, or I'm just plain blind.

Sigh ... this may take a bit of time ...

Maiko

On Mon, 15 Oct 2018, Michael Fox - N6MEF wrote:

>
>>> We have seen many cases where a user switches to a mailbox and sees "X
>>> messages - Y new", where Y is not correct.  For example, maybe it says
>> "...
>>> 0 new" when, in fact, there are messages in that mailbox that have
>> arrived
>>> since the last time the user logged in.
>>
>> Since the user last logged in or WHILE the user has been logged in ?
>
> "... Since the last time the user logged in".
>
> As another example, I just logged in to my home BBS and switched to the
> allww area ("A allww"), which contains all worldwide bulletins.  I got 155
> messages - 0 new".  But all of the bulletins in that area are from the last
> week (I have a 7 day expiry) and I haven't read that mailbox in months.
>
> The cause:  <mailbox>.usr had an entry for my call sign with a value higher
> than all of the AA##### messages numbers in the allww.txt file.  When I
> edited <mailbox>.usr and set the number to 10000, then logged in again, I
> now see 155 messages - 155 new.
>
> And if I set the number in allww.txt to some number that is higher than the
> lowest AA##### number in allww.txt and lower than the highest AA##### number
> in alww.txt, it shows those messages with lower numbers as read and those
> with higher numbers as unread.  As I say, this is super easy to duplicate.
>
> The problem, of course, is if new messages come in and are assigned AA#####
> numbers lower than what is stored in <mailbox>.usr for that user.  JNOS
> assume the messages with lower numbers have been read by that user.
>
>
>>
>> If user is logged in, their index is probably locked, so maybe something
>> is going on there, I'll have to check.
>
> I assumed as much - at least while they are in that mailbox.  The number in
> <mailbox>.usr appears to be updated when the user leaves the mailbox (such
> as by typing "a <othermailbox>" or logging out).
>
> Michael
> N6MEF
>
>
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