Subj : Re: Sending email to a fidonet (netmail) address?
To   : Ghil Zvidgzul
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Thu Dec 23 2021 08:31 am

 Re: Re: Sending email to a fidonet (netmail) address?
 By: Ghil Zvidgzul to Rob Swindell on Thu Dec 23 2021 07:44 am

> Hello, Rob!
>
>  >> Do you know of any gate used to to send private emails to fidonet
>  >> adresses?
>
>  RS> Most Fido-connected Synchronet systems support SMTP->FTN gating:
>  RS> <name>@f<node>.n<net>.z<zone>.fidonet
>
> The question remains: how do I send an email from my gmail address to
> 1:103/705 ?
> I tried to send an email to: [email protected]
> And got an error from Mail Delivery Subsystem:
>  "Address not found
> Your message wasn't delivered to [email protected]
> because the domain f705.n103.z2.fidonet.org couldn't be found. Check for
> typos or unnecessary spaces and try again."

Firstly, you'd have to connect to a Synchronet SMTP server (e.g. mail.synchro.net) when sending the mail message. Secondly, it's ".fidonet" not ".fidonet.org".

http://wiki.synchro.net/server:mail#special_addresses
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