Hi all,
I'm having a strange problem trying to send netmail. sbbsecho doesn't seem to want to export a lone netmail as a FLO packet (or whatever it is, I'm not sure I'm explaining it right)
I'm using SBBSECHO with binkd. here's what happens.
- I create a netmail message.
- I run sbbsecho -f (although apparently -f is no longer needed)
- sbbsecho finds the netmail, packs it up, and puts it in ../mail/fidoout with a .pkt extension
- sbbsecho exits.
binkd does not appear to recognize this .pkt file, as it just goes on its merry way of doing nothing.
Reading through the util:sbbsecho wiki page, isn't the packet suppoed to have a .?ut extension?
Re: sbbsecho outbound netmail packet issue
Reading through the util:sbbsecho wiki page, isn't the packet suppoed to have a .?ut extension?
Yes, unless:
A. You have SBBSecho configured for Attach/ArcMail operation, or
B. You have the detination node configured to use an outbound mailbox ("outbox")
digital man
Re: sbbsecho outbound netmail packet issue
Reading through the util:sbbsecho wiki page, isn't the packet suppoed to have a .?ut extension?
Yes, unless:
A. You have SBBSecho configured for Attach/ArcMail operation, or
B. You have the detination node configured to use an outbound mailbox ("outbox")
I do indeed have it configured to use an outbox,
as that was the way I understood it needed to be set up for
multiple networks. Is that not the case?
Yes, unless:
A. You have SBBSecho configured for Attach/ArcMail operation, or
B. You have the detination node configured to use an outbound
mailbox ("outbox")
I do indeed have it configured to use an outbox,
as that was the way I understood it needed to be set up for
multiple networks. Is that not the case?
No, the fileboxes are just a convenience since no FLO files are needed. Of course you would have to configure BinkD to look in your configured outbox directory for files for that node, but a *.pkt file should work just fine in that case.
Ok, got it sorted. What I needed to do was just put "1" as my primary zone in binkd, for example:
domain fidonet /sbbs/mail/fidoout 1
domain fido alias-for fidonet
domain fidonet.org alias-for fidonet
domain whispernet /sbbs/mail/fidoout 1
Originally I had, with the outbox configured:
domain whispernet /sbbs/mail/wnetout 316
Since I've actually set binkd and sbbsecho up before, (many years ago), I just figured i could cruise through it by looking at examples. Last night I decided to actually read the binkd docs and, combined with what you told me, I realized that the above was the proper way to set such things up :)
Thanks for the help!
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