Subj : I thing I give up
To   : Nick Boel
From : Oli
Date : Thu Oct 16 2025 16:51:54

Hey Nick,

15 Oct 25 16:42, you wrote to me:

 NB> I'm just going by what he originally said:

 NB> --- Quote
 NB> In Binkd I named the other networks Amiganet, Fsxnet, and so on.  But
 NB> the paths the outgoing stuff was written to was set to /fido/amiganet,
 NB> /fido/fsxnet and so on.

 NB> Naturally, Binkd was looking in /fido/Fsxnet.xxx and
 NB> /fido/Amiganet.xxx.
 NB> --- End Quote

 NB> Notice there were no extensions in the first sentence.

 NB> If his "stuff" was being /written/ to directories /without/ hex
 NB> extensions, that is NOT binkd's doing, it is Crashmail. If he meant to
 NB> say "But the paths the outgoing stuff was written to was set to
 NB> /fido/amiganet.027, /fido/fsxnet.015 and so on," then it was simply a
 NB> case problem where he defined his domains in binkd with uppercase
 NB> first letters and lowercase first letters in Crashmail. However, that
 NB> is NOT what he originally said. I gave him an answer to what he
 NB> originally said.

You are right, I missed that or my brain autocorected it. As the the upper case domains were defined in crashmail.prefs, but not in binkd, I assumed it was simply a upper/lower case problem.

 NB> If what he said was wrong, then my answer was wrong, too. One can only
 NB> go by what is written when trying to help.

I believe it was, because Crashmail has no concept of a default zone for the other domains. There is only one default zone (for the first domain / outbound).

See https://github.com/ftnapps/crashmail/blob/master/src/crashmail/outbound.c#L65

The outbound directory structure which Crashmail II supports looks like this:

/fido/outbound
/fido/outbound.001
/fido/amiganet.027
/fido/fsxnet.015

It only speaks 5D BSO, nothing else. It does not support the weird binkd style outbound which omits the hex extension. And it has no 4D BSO support.

I made minor changes in the Crashmail sources to outbound.c. My Crashmail II uses Amiga Style Outbound, which is supported by binkd. No stupid hex extensions or .pnt directories.



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