Subj : Mailer With IREX
To   : Daryl Stout
From : mark lewis
Date : Fri Dec 12 2014 02:44:56


 On Thu, 11 Dec 2014, Daryl Stout wrote to MARK LEWIS:

ML>his system shouldn't be sending the ?LO files... the ?UT files, on 
ML>the other hand, are PKT files... they contain netmail or echomail... 
ML>your downlink has got their stuff configured properly...

 DS>   Yeah, he had his netmail routing all screwed up as well, sending 
 DS> stuff through a FIDONet address, instead of through the network it 
 DS> should've been.

understood... sometimes things are not as easily handled as with other 
packages...

 DS> Plus, he says that "Synchronet doesn't require a nodelist".

it doesn't... it has no facility for a nodelist and no nodelist lookup 
capability... it is much like binkd in this respect except that it came long 
before binkd did ;) 

 DS> Every BBS package I've run (GT Power under dial-up, then 
 DS> Synchronet and Virtual Advanced) has required a nodelist to do 
 DS> netmail.

that's interesting that you mention synchronet... there's a synchronet system 
running on the network here and there's no sign of a nodelist on that machine 
at all...

 DS> I told him I was going to stick to QWK Networking of it, as I was 
 DS> afraid we were going to anger the Region 19 Coordinator, if we 
 DS> kept that up. I figured the problem was on his end.

ML>you mean SA0 TU2 and similar? those are bundles... they contain 
ML>PKTs...
 
 DS>   That's what I figured. Mail seems to be tossing OK.

ML> DS> Since my BBS is telnet/web only (no dial-up), even though 
ML> DS> Virtual Advanced has a deal to "check for FIDOMail (EMSI)" at 
ML> DS> logon, I have that disabled.

ML>EMSI works over telnet ;)

 DS> However, while VADV32 has a Windows setup, it basically is a "DOS" 
 DS> setup, because it does NOT have DOOR32.SYS capability.

that doesn't matter for whether or not it is a windows or dos or 32bit or 16bit 
or similar... all door32.sys does is expand slightly on the existing door.sys 
format...

 DS> I've heard talk about plans for that and upgrading it to 32-bit 
 DS> software, but that's all...just talk. But, I'd be curious to know 
 DS> how to get EMSI to work under telnet.

enable the above mention "check for fidomail (EMSI)" option... then one only 
need poll your system with a FTN mailer over telnet... like one of my frontdoor 
nodes which services telnet connections ;)

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