DDMsgReader can't properly list empty message areas

assigned to @nightfox

I don't understand this issue. You can only press M when you're reading a message, and if there are no messages in a sub-board, then you can't get into the reader mode (since there are no messages to read). And if there are no messages in a message area, there would also not be any messages to list (it should tell you the sub-board is empty). If you have a list of "nobody" and bad dates, I have a feeling that particular messagebase may be corrupt on your system.

I would recommend running chksmb , where is the name of that messagebase .SHD file. If it finds any problems, you can then run fixsmb and hopefully it will fix any issues the messagebase may have. I think you can even run fixsmb without using chksmb first.

Wiki pages: chksmb and fixsmb

Change to sub-board with messages in it. Method doesn't matter.
(R) read messages
(M) list messages
(C) change area
Use chooser to end up in sub-board with no messages

 1 Nobody Nobody   1969-12-31  18:00:00
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20 Nobody Nobody   1969-12-31  18:00:00

I can reproduce that and will look into it. It seems it only happens when you change to an empty sub-board from within DDMsgReader. If you change to an empty sub-board from the BBS and try to read it with DDMsgReader, DDMsgReader will tell you there are no messages in the sub-board.

Did a little more testing this morning. It's unique to DDMsgReader because of the ability to jump areas direct from the message list. It's populating from getBogusMsgHdr, which is used often, but I suspect you're creating headers when the number of messages in the message list is zero.

I'd say this is pretty low priority to fix, but the issue is real.

mentioned in merge request !154 (merged)

mentioned in commit 9f1cfeda

closed with merge request !154 (merged)

DDMsgReader can't properly list empty message areas

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