Subj : Re: Binkd nondinnding to certain networks
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Joacim Melin
Date : Fri Dec 08 2017 08:09 am

WvV> Hi Joacim,

WvV> On 2017-12-07 21:41:17, you wrote to me:

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
JM>>>> networks 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

JM>> Thanks for your input!  I noticed now that there are a folder named
JM>> /fido/AmigaNet.027.

WvV> That's not correct, binkd won't look in there. It should be
WvV> /fido/outbound.027.
WvV> Did you configure that in the crashmail config? Or did crashmail
WvV> come up with that all by itself?

JM>> In there is the outgoing packet that was created earlier tonight. But
JM>> it's still not sent out properly.  The content of the 009600c8.clo is
JM>> as follows:

WvV> A .clo file is not a packet!

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

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

WvV> No that has nothing to do with it. Torsten explained it...

Crashmail just has a path to the outbound folder so I guess that it creates
that Amiganet folder by itself for some reason. I will try to rename it
manually and see what happens - thanks for great feedback!


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