Subj : Issue with BinkD and outbound attempts.
To   : mark lewis
From : Andrew Leary
Date : Sun Mar 29 2020 03:01 am

Hello mark!

ml> i did (finally) find the text of a message where stas replied to me in
ml> reference to my questions about 5D while working on my 4DOS/4OS2
ml> scripts... i think this was back in about 2011 going by the version of
ml> his golded... unfortulately i cannot currently get to the actual
ml> header of his message...


ml> ----->8 snip 8<-----

ml> Hello mark.

ml> 25 Jul 12 17:04, you wrote to me:

ml>> eg:
ml>> domain fidonet x:\\bink\\outbound\\fidonet 1
ml>> domain quartz x:\\bink\\outbound\\quartz 123

ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET
ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .002
ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .003
ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .004
ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .005
ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .006
ml> OK
ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\QUARTZ  .07B
ml> Invalid, should be:
ml> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\QUARTZ
ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\QUARTZ  .07C
ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\QUARTZ  .07D
ml> OK
ml>> the above indicates fidonet is zones 1,2,3,4,5,6 and quartz is
ml>> 123,124,125??

ml> Zone 123 specified as "default for the domain quartz" and outbound
ml> directory for 123:*@quartz should be without number in suffix.

ml>> and if i have foobar net with zone 124 (duplicate zone, different
ml>> domain) then...

ml>> domain fidonet x:\\bink\\outbound\\fidonet 1
ml>> domain quartz x:\\bink\\outbound\\quartz 123
ml>> domain foobar x:\\bink\\outbound\\foobar 124

ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET
ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .002
ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .003
ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .004
ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .005
ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .006
ml> OK
ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FOOBAR  .07C
ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\QUARTZ  .07B
ml> Invalid, should be:
ml> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FOOBAR
ml> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\QUARTZ

ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\QUARTZ  .07C
ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\QUARTZ  .07D
ml> OK
ml>> the above indicates fidonet is zones 1,2,3,4,5,6... foobar is
ml>> 124... quartz is 123,124,125???

ml> Stas
ml> Jabber-ID: [email protected]
ml> GPG key 0x72186DB9 (keyserver: hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net)
ml> .!. Golded+, Husky & RNTrack maintainer, Binkd developer&webmaster
ml> -!- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20110302
ml>  ! Origin: Grumbler at home (2:5080/102.1)

ml> ----->8 snip 8<-----

ml> i've taken and used the above as the definitive format for a proper 5D
ml> outbound directory layout ever since... specifically, the *default
ml> outbound for each domain has no hex zone extension* on it while all
ml> the others do...

This is how MBSE works with a BSO outbound as well.

Andrew

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