Subj : tub and bbbs, was way ot, need some maximus ...
To : Richard Webb
From : Russell Tiedt
Date : Tue Mar 10 2009 06:48 pm
Hello Richard.
09 Mar 09 19:18, you wrote to me:
RW> MIght look at that, when we finally do the dsl thing here.
RW> WIll do smoothwall on the main connected box, but sitll have to figure
RW> some things out to get old blind man's familiar screenreader on one
RW> box.
You can use TimEd, Squish, BinkleyTerm and BinkD as a mail only system as
well, and as you are already familiar with them, no need to move to Husky, and
MBSE BBS only runs on Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD and possibly MAC OS/X
RT>> That would be what I expect, but, Janis says BBBS wants routing
RT>> instructions along with the netmail in a seperate message, if I
RT>> understand her correctly.
RW> Hmmm that's a new one on me, don't know how that's supposed
RW> to work.
Niether do I, was going to ask, but something came along and I never got that
far ...
RT>> With Squish, when it tosses messages, it checks the address of
RT>> the message, with the routing table, if the routing table says
RT>> the mail is local, it gets tossed to the local msgbase, if it is
RT>> not for the system, it get routed according to the routing table
RT>> and goes out with the next connect to the uplink ...
RW> sounds right. I have squish kill passing through mail in
RW> transit also.
Might I ask why you kill mail passing thru ... ?
RT>> I hope so as well, as I wouldn't mind a little "enlightenment" ...
RT>> , but if at all possible, might be better to not route netmail
RT>> thru Janis until the problem is understood better by the Squish
RT>> users.
RW> Would agree. I"m not sure what it's story is, but my
RW> routing works well enough through 3634/12.
RW> THe strange part is my z1 routing seems to work alright
RW> through her system. <go figure>. Anybody lurking around
RW> here shed some light on all this?
Sorry, no idea ... :-((
Russell
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