Subj : IREX & LoraBBS
To   : Bob Jones
From : Russell Tiedt
Date : Sun Dec 24 2000 11:31 pm

 RT>> I am running LoraBBS and am trying to get IREX to work with Lora.

 BJ> I'm not using either package, but your outbound setup sounds like 
 BJ> what Binkley and BinkD use, so I'll comment based on that experience.

As I understand it, LoraBBS uses a Binkley Style Outbound, so that should be 
relevant.

 RT>> Lora uses outbound as follows:

 RT>> Outbound
 RT>> Outbound.001
 RT>> Outbound.002
 RT>> Outbound.005
 RT>> Outbound.008

Oops, Outbound.008 should be Outbound.0DC or ODC ???.

 RT>> IREX does not send mail packet xxxxxxx.SA0 which is in 
 RT>> Outbound.005 (fido).
 RT>> Have not tried it with my other networks yet.

 BJ> I think I see the problem.  Your primary address is in zone 5, 
 BJ> correct?  

No, FamilyNet (8:7905/1).

 BJ> While I'll admit I'm in zone 1, so I haven't had to test the 
 BJ> following, it is my understanding that the Outbound directory should 
 BJ> hold the outbound packets for your primary address's zone.  So, in 
 BJ> your case, you should *not* have an Outbound.005, and instead all 
 BJ> files currently going in Outbound.005 should be in Outbound.  Now 
 BJ> that is what I would expect for a Binkley/Squish/BinkD setup.  If 
 BJ> LOraBBS (or what every your mail masher is) operates by placing in 
 BJ> Outbound.005 and IREX expects stuff instead in Outbound, that might 
 BJ> do it.  Also, if IREX operates like BinkD, and if 5:7102/1 and 
 BJ> 1:393/9005 are BinkP protocol exchanges, then that should be crash 
 BJ> not hold -- and then you need to adjust your POTS mailer so it 
 BJ> doesn't try to dial those nodes.  I handle that via nodelist costs 
 BJ> variables and binkley's cost controls allowed in it's event file.

I accept your reasoning above as it confirms my understanding of how thing 
should work, if my Primary AKA was FidoNet (5:7105/1) which it is not, simply 
because my first network was FamilyNet. 

IREX can operate like BinkD, it also has a option to send mail on which is set 
as HOLD, which I need with LoraBBS, I don't have the option to tweak the 
nodelist compiling.

It might be a solution to make my local FidoNet AKA my Primary, see my reply 
also to Peter Knapper, will wait and see what other answers I get in other 
echoes I have asked. Someone might just say something that will cause the penny 
to drop into it's slot here.

 BJ> Good luck.....

Thanks! :-)

Russell

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 * Origin: Rusty's BBS - Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa (5:7105/1)

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