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   Nigel Reed to GitLab note in main/sbbs   
   smb: Header field contains control chara   
   09 Sep 24 14:19:17   
   
   TZUTC: -0700   
   MSGID: 56294.sync_sys@1:103/705 2b45783b   
   PID: Synchronet 3.20a-Linux master/e93b6dfa6 Aug 22 202 GCC 12.2.0   
   TID: SBBSecho 3.20-Linux master/984c371ae Sep 06 2024 20:48 GCC 12.2.0   
   BBSID: VERT   
   CHRS: ASCII 1   
   https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/786#note_5599   
      
   Now it seems even more screwed up.   
      
   ```   
   92%  #14922 (3DA220) SYS64738                  Header field contains control   
   characters   
   ```   
      
   So if I use smbutil to try and find 14922   
      
   ```   
   4756/#14921 Errol Casey               phigan                    Cannot see all   
   message boards   
   4757/#14923 Denn                      Errol Casey               Cannot see all   
   message boards   
   4758/#14924 Errol Casey               Denn                      Cannot see all   
   message boards   
   4759/#14925 SYS64738   
   ```   
      
   It's not there.   
      
   So let's run fixsmb   
      
   ```   
   smb_getmsghdr corrupt message header ID (04 00 00 00) at offset 3987232   
   92%  #14922 (3DA220) SYS64738                  Not indexing deleted message   
   ```   
      
   Says it's deleted. So let's make sure   
      
   ```   
   bbs@bbs:/sbbs/data/subs/dovenet$ smbutil mp1000 dove-syncops.shd   
      
   SMBUTIL v3.20-Linux master/d232ecdc6 SMBLIB 3.00 - Synchronet Message Base   
   Utility   
      
   Opening dove-syncops   
   Maintaining dove-syncops   
   Maintaining dove-syncops hash file   
   Loading index...   
      
   Done.   
      
   Scanning for pre-flagged messages...   
   100% (0 pre-flagged for deletion)   
   Scanning for read messages to be killed...   
   100% (0 flagged for deletion due to read status)   
   dove-syncops locked successfully   
   Packing dove-syncops   
   Analyzing dove-syncops   
   820992 less than 1024000 compressible bytes.   
      
   dove-syncops unlocked successfully   
   ```   
      
   Nothing flagged for deletions so let's double check with another chksmb   
      
   ```   
   Checking dove-syncops Headers   
      
   92%  #14922 (3DA220) SYS64738                  Header field contains control   
   characters   
   ```   
      
   Still there. I don't seem to be able to get rid of it.   
   --- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux   
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