Subj : Re: makenl sbbsecho and netmail and routing issue
To   : Digital Man
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Tue Oct 05 2021 22:32:31

Hi Digital,

On 2021-10-05 12:54:07, you wrote to me:

 >> I checked a stored message that makenl generates. It has the complete
 >> 4D address of the source and destination in the header (and also the
 >> source address in the MSGID kludge). A tosser should put those in the
 >> INTL kludge of the packed message in the .pkt file it generates. The
 >> Fuzzy Zone setting shouldn't overrule the information in an INTL kludge
 >> if present. So where does this go wrong?

 DM> The Fuzzy Zone setting instructs SBBSecho to ignore the zone information in
 DM> the netmail message header. If the netmail itself had an INTL kludge, it
 DM> would use the zone information from that, but makenl isn't adding it. So,
 DM> with Fuzzy Zone behavior, SBBSecho will "guess" the zone information based
 DM> on the destination net/node/point. It's an arcane feature for old
 DM> pre-historic "stored messages" and probably should just be removed.

Indeed, you probably almost never need it. Maybe with really old software that generates *.msg files. But should you want to use that software?

Bye, Wilfred.

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