Board:   [fsxNet] fsxNet Network Discussion
Subject: Netmail routing error?
From:    Peter London(21:3/242)
Date:    Mon Jul 13, 2026 11:46

Hi deon,

thank you so much for taking a look at this :).

> OK I tracked this down, and the netmails were passed onto 21:3/246.

> The reason you were not seeing them on 21:3/242 was related to a bug
> processing the Via line (your VIA lines are not including a timezone),
> and while it is optional, I was calling a date function with a blank
> string for a timezone, instead of "null", causing an exception to be
> thrown.

Gotcha! :)

To be fair, I couldn't tell for sure wether the netmails to 3/246 (and
others) were delivered or not. It's certainly possible. I was fighting
several battles at once - implementing netmail support myself in my
90's C bbs software, while troubleshooting crashmail configurations
in parallell with expanding my own knowledge on how the ftn protocol
and standards even function to begin with :D. At the same time, trying
to keep the total number of test netmails sent to real people as low
as possible :D. Only once I had the feeling that my configs - and the
way my bbs constructs the netmail .MSG's - both were up to the
standards, I felt I just had to reach out for support ;).

> This bug would only have dropped the VIA line from 3/242, so outbound
> netmails would have been sent without it - as well as clrghouz not
> showing them on the "Packets and Files Sent" tab.

Yup, that was the confusing part. I use the "Packets and Files Sent"
tab all the time, to verify inbound and outbound traffic. It has never
failed on me before - which made me assume that as long as the "The
last Netmails received" is empty, it's probably just me doing something
wrong (again) ;).

Btw : To my understanding, Crashmail constructs the VIA line during
SCAN.

We now have :

21:3/242 @20260712.231005 CrashMail II/Linux 1.7

But what we want is :

21:3/242 @20260712.211005.UTC CrashMail II/Linux 1.7

At some point, I might dig into the Crashmail source to see if we can
fix that! :)

Many thanks deon - you're a hero!

Cheers

Peter


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