Subj : Re: Binkd nondinnding to certain networks
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Joacim Melin
Date : Thu Dec 07 2017 09:41 pm

WvV> Hi Joacim,

WvV> On 2017-12-07 20:27:03, you wrote to All:

JM>> quick question: I got a setup with Crashmail II tossing and scanning
JM>> FTN style mail for my BBS. It all works fine with Fidonet but if I add
JM>> a second network to my BBS, to Crashmail II and to Binkd it goes
JM>> south. Binkd will not touch any outgoing mail to any other network
JM>> than Fidonet. In my case, I'm also a member of Aminet and any mail
JM>> created for Aminet is found and put in the outgoing folder by
JM>> Crashmail II.  Once there, Binkp will not even send it if my Aminet
JM>> HUB will connect to me and send me mail.

JM>> Here's Crashmail II's output:

JM>> Exporting message #8 from "Joacim Melin" to "All" in SYSOP_AMY 1
JM>> message exported Scanning for orphan files Scanning for old packets
JM>> Scanning for new files to pack Sending 29974200.pkt unpacked to
JM>> 39:150/200.0 Updating hwm for area SYSOP_AMY, old = 7, new = 8
JM>> CrashMail end

JM>> Binkp does... nothing at this point. Just sits there.

JM>> I see two possible issues:

JM>> 1. Crashmail II only has one (1) setting for outgoing mail:

JM>> INBOUND /fido/inbound/
JM>> OUTBOUND /fido/outbound/

JM>> Maybe Binkp would like it better if outgoing mail for different networks
JM>> was sorted in different folders?

WvV> Outbound pkt files for other zones should be put in seperate
WvV> automatically created directories.

WvV> For instance:

WvV> FidoNet Zone 1 -> /fido/outbound.001
WvV> AmigaNet Zone 39 -> /fido/outbound.027

WvV> You don't specify these either in your binkd.conf! This would look
WvV> like:

WvV> domain fidonet  /fido/outbound 2
WvV> domain AmigaNet /fido/outbound 2

Thanks for your input!  I noticed now that there are a folder named
/fido/AmigaNet.027. In there is the outgoing packet that was created earlier
tonight. But it's still not sent out properly.  The content of the 009600c8.clo
is as follows:

^/fido/outbound/be9ed600.pkt
^/fido/outbound/be9f1e00.pkt
^/fido/outbound/bea52300.pkt
^/fido/outbound/59bea5c4.su0
^/fido/outbound/59bea5c4.su1
^/fido/outbound/59bea5c4.tu0
^/fido/outbound/59bea5c4.tu1
^/fido/outbound/59bea5c4.tu2
^/fido/outbound/59bea5c4.tu3
^/fido/outbound/59bea5c4.we0
^/fido/outbound/59bea5c4.th0
^/fido/outbound/2994e600.pkt
^/fido/outbound/29974200.pkt

Which, I guess, is all the outgoing packets that hasn't been sent yet. I wonder
if the ^ symbol in front of the path is what mess things up. I have no idea
where that symbol comes from though.



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