Subj : Re: Problem at your system
To   : Alan Ianson
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Thu Jan 26 2023 11:48 pm

Hi Alan,

On 2023-01-26 14:26:14, you wrote to me:

>> So we are left with common sense and logic, how to apply them. ;-)

AI> Common sense and logic dictates that the address in the header is correct.

AI> I am not against the INTL kludge. I like the INTL kludge as kludges go but
AI> the address in the header serves a purpose, and it should be correct.

The header doesn't contain the zone for the destination, so what is in the header is by definition incomplete, so it can't be the only source for the destination of the message, so you need what is in the INTL kludge, to be able to route a netmail.
(Except when there is no INTL kludge, then the destination is in the same zone as the origin address, and it should never leave the zone. But I think such netmails haven't existed for at least 3 decades in fidonet)

Further the only known use case, where the header and INTL kludge contain a different address is when the message is sent to a zone-gate in the same zone as the sender.
1) Zone-gates are no longer used, or even exist. So something is wrong, and the message shouldn't be forwarded to a non existent address when the address in the INTL kludge does exist, and is even the local system.
2) When the message is already outside of the zone of the sender, it's not logical to send it back to the zone-gate in the zone of the sender.


Bye, Wilfred.

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