Subj : system.matchuser() not finding user by real name
To   : Digital Man
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Aug 15 2019 07:41 pm

  Re: system.matchuser() not finding user by real name
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Thu Aug 15 2019 07:08 pm

 Ni> I'm running a Synchronet Windows build from August 1st. With my reader, I
 Ni> forwarded a message in a sub-board to myself on my BBS, and it used my
 Ni> real name for the 'from' header field. With my reader, I try to reply to
 Ni> it, and my reader calls system.matchuser() to get the user number to reply
 Ni> to the appropriate person (in this case, I'm replying to myself, doing
 Ni> some testing). Apparently, system.matchuser() is unable to find the user
 Ni> record with my real name - system.matchuser() is returning 0 with my real
 Ni> name. Is that expected? 

Now that I think about it, I suppose that behavior might be expected.  It's possible there might be multiple users who happen to have the same real name. I guess I just hadn't noticed (or hadn't remembered) that behavior before.

Nightfox

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