[drats_users] Messaging Issue?

[Michael A. Waldron]

Yes, it does make sense to me, I will go learn how to file a bug report :-)

-Mike

Dan Smith wrote:
>> I think I found a messaging issue. A few of us have been leaving
>> D-Rats up 24/7 on the local repeater just so we always have someone
>> to connect to and test with.
> 
> Cool, bonus points for you :)
> 
>> At lunch, one guy asked me if I got his message. I said no, and he
>> said that was strange he saw it go out (him->repeater->me). I got
>> home and looked for the message, the message he sent me is located
>> in my Outbox. That seems strange to me.
> 
> It is strange, but expected (I think).
> 
> In 0.3.0b11, I added some message routing stuff which will eventually
> lead to being able to have D-RATS stations automatically forward
> messages destined for other stations along a pre-set route.  When a
> message arrives for a recipient other than the current station, it
> puts it in the Outbox instead of the Inbox so that the routing logic
> (if enabled) will pick it up on the next cycle.
> 
> Since he's on 0.2, his form didn't have routing information on it,
> which means it defaulted to looking within the form and picked up one
> of the recipient fields (depending on the type).  Since this recipient
> field was probably not your callsign, verbatim as known to D-RATS, it
> assumed it was for a different station and put it in the Outbox.
> 
> What I should do is, if you don't have message routing enabled, not
> stuff things in the Outbox automatically.
> 
> Does that make sense?  Wanna file a bug for me so I remember to fix
> that? :)
> 
> Thanks!
> 


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