Howdy,

I've been doing smoe work on clrghouz the last week or two, and I started rolling out those updates over the last week.

I've basically optimised the message store, changing compression from zstd to brotli, as well as changing how its stored in the DB - which looks like has bought me a 60-70% reduction in message stoage - yay :)

I also reworked how packets are parsed, that I think gives me a performance boost now, but primarily enables me to skip past bad messages in a packet and hopefully just throw away that one bad one.

Unfortunately, I broke a few things along the way, and I'm now chasing the final bugs hopefully. Every now and again I see an exception in the logs that I fix, and those exceptions are not happening as often now.

The DB will be going through a conversion over the next few hours (got 1m messages in there!) to take advantage of that space, before I upgrade it to a later version (when thats done).

If you see something odd, please let me know.


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On 24 Feb 2026, deon said the following...

If you see something odd, please let me know.

I have seen quite a few dupes on my side lately, a lot of them are ibbslastcall messages, others include:

MSGID: 21:4/148@fsxnet 699c29b8 from "Roon" in FSX_TST
MSGID: 21:4/131 0192ef2d from "Wrong Number Family BBS'" in FSX_ADS


This last batch all seem to be from Hub 4, so may not be Clrghouz related.


Jay

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Re: Re: Hub 3 - Clrghouz updates
By: Warpslide to deon on Tue Feb 24 2026 06:01 am

Howdy,

I have seen quite a few dupes on my side lately, a lot of them are ibbslastcall messages, others include:

MSGID: 21:4/148@fsxnet 699c29b8 from "Roon" in FSX_TST
MSGID: 21:4/131 0192ef2d from "Wrong Number Family BBS'" in FSX_ADS

This last batch all seem to be from Hub 4, so may not be Clrghouz related.

They were likely clrghouz.

I discovered clrghouz wasnt processing the seen-by (or path/via lines) from messages (echomail & netmail), so its likely it sent them out again to the hubs.

Should be good now though, fixed it this morning...

If they keep coming, please let me know...


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On 24 Feb 2026 at 06:01a, Warpslide pondered and said...

This last batch all seem to be from Hub 4, so may not be Clrghouz
related.

could well be a bunch of stuff I had processed after restarting the HUBs in recent days...

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Hey Deon,

If you see something odd, please
let me know.

I noticed that viewing the last echomails sent and received via the web no longer works.

The 'sent to you' doesn't have a clickable msgid and clicking on any in the 'you sent' throws an error 'That didnt work? Please try again..."

Other than that, I haven't noticed any issues on my end.

Thanks!


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Re: Re: Hub 3 - Clrghouz updates
By: slacker to deon on Sat Feb 28 2026 03:36 am

Howdy,

I noticed that viewing the last echomails sent and received via the web no longer works.

The 'sent to you' doesn't have a clickable msgid and clicking on any in the 'you sent' throws an error 'That didnt work? Please try again..."

Thanks, I'd nearly forgotten to look at that.

I've changed the logging a little, and record now the archive that a packet comes in (makes it a little easier to track problematic packets), and that has broken that page.

I'll fix that soon :)

Other than that, I haven't noticed any issues on my end.

Awesome.

Some folks may have been getting dups - I've been tracking down a duplicate issue, where clrghouz was sending out mail to folks who had already received it (probably via another route). I think I've got it now.

Some from now, hopefully no more dupes :)


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