Subj : Fixings posts
To   : Nelgin
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Dec 23 2022 11:28 am

  Re: Fixings posts
  By: Nelgin to Digital Man on Thu Dec 22 2022 11:21 pm

 > I accidentally messed up my user.tab file and restored it from backup, not
 > realizing a new user had registered since the last backup I was using.

You're aware that the user.tab is automatically backed-up nightly be SBBS?

 > He had made some posts but now a different user has the user number.
 >
 > Is it just a simple matter of getting all the posts by the old sender_userid
 > from the header and rewriting with the new userid as long as from matches
 > the old username?

If by 'userid' you mean user number, yeah, that'd work, but I don't know that I'd bother.

 > Thankfully he really only posted in one or two fido echoes but I also want
 > to make sure any personal netmail is transfered over.

NetMail would be trickier because the user number is used to index the messages in the mail base. I'm not sure if just changing the message headers will fix the index or you'd have to run 'fixsmb' after doing so.
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