Subj : I thing I give up
To   : Oli
From : Nick Boel
Date : Wed Oct 15 2025 04:42 pm

Hey Oli!

On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:08:54 +0100, you wrote:

> Only for 4D adressing, but crashmail uses FTSC compliant 5D BSO.

I'm fairly certain I just said that. ;)

NB>> If Crashmail is properly using /fido/Amiganet, /fido/Fsxnet and so
NB>> on /without/ the hex extensions, your binkd config may be better
NB>> off using this as an example, where you put the actual zone number
NB>> of the network instead of your default zone (2). This is proper 5D
NB>> addressing, whereas you seem to be trying to use a mixture of 4D
NB>> and 5D configurations and hoping for the best at the moment:

NB>> domain fidonet /fido/outbound 2
NB>> domain fsxnet /fido/fsxnet 21

> Wrong. With that configuration you don't get proper 5D outbound
> directories. Crashmail does it correctly. A hex extension for all
> domains with the exception of the first domain's default zone, e.g:

> /fido/outbound
> /fido/amiganet.027
> /fido/fsxnet.015

By reading exactly what he had posted, that didn't seem to be the case... See below.

> Which is not standard compliant. Unfortunatly binkd's 5D implementation
> is not correct and everyone seems to believe that it is. The
> configuration Joacim used is a work around to achieve 5D BSO with binkd:

> domain fidonet /fido/outbound 2
> domain amiganet /fido/amiganet 2
> domain fsxnet /fido/fsxnet 2

> See FTS-5005 for the specification of 5D BSO.

I'm just going by what he originally said:

--- Quote
In Binkd I named the other networks Amiganet, Fsxnet, and so on.  But the paths the outgoing stuff was written to was set to /fido/amiganet, /fido/fsxnet and
so on.

Naturally, Binkd was looking in /fido/Fsxnet.xxx and /fido/Amiganet.xxx.
--- End Quote

Notice there were no extensions in the first sentence.

If his "stuff" was being /written/ to directories /without/ hex extensions, that is NOT binkd's doing, it is Crashmail. If he meant to say "But the paths the outgoing stuff was written to was set to /fido/amiganet.027, /fido/fsxnet.015 and so on," then it was simply a case problem where he defined his domains in binkd with uppercase first letters and lowercase first letters in Crashmail. However, that is NOT what he originally said. I gave him an answer to what he originally said.

If what he said was wrong, then my answer was wrong, too. One can only go by what is written when trying to help.

Regards,
Nick

... Sarcasm: because beating people up is illegal.
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