Subj : Re: Routing...
To : Digital Man
From : Bill McGarrity
Date : Tue Nov 07 2017 06:26 am
-=> Digital Man wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-
DM> Re: Routing...
DM> By: Bill McGarrity to Digital Man on Sat Feb 20 2016 08:02 pm
> Hiya Rob...
>
> I've had this question forever. Being I'm the ZC for Sportnet (z24), I've
> always wondered which statements would I use in the sbbsecho.cfgfor, say
> when someone in Sportnet wants to route netmail through me to another node
> in
> z24. I've always thought it was:
>
> ROUTE_TO 24:24/0 24:ALL
>
> Is this correct?
DM> Yes, that looks correct.
> Also points. I have someone who sends me netmail from a point but when I
> answer it, sbbsecho creates a .pnt folder under the correct outbound
> directory and it seems binkd never picks it up. I'm sure this also has an
> answer in ROUTING as well.
DM> BinkD will send the files in the .PNT folder to the point node if it
DM> ever connects to your host using BinkP. If not, then you'll need to
DM> force a poll to that node (e.g. using BinkD) or route it (using
DM> SBBSecho). But once it's in the .PNT folder it's too late for SBBSecho
DM> to route it. But if the point node is connecting directly to you to
DM> send/receive mail, you don't want to route it anyway.
