Subj : PATH kludge on exported echomail
To   : deon
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Feb 02 2022 19:18:32

  Re: PATH kludge on exported echomail
  By: deon to Digital Man on Thu Feb 03 2022 12:45 pm

 >   Re: PATH kludge on exported echomail
 >   By: deon to Digital Man on Thu Feb 03 2022 12:33 pm
 >
 >  >  > I suspect that in your example, one of the echomail systems along the
 >  >  > path (most likely 1:320/219) stripped the incoming PATH line(s) when
 >  >  > the message was re-packed for a foreign zone.
 >
 >  > So to understand if it did do that, can you confirm that you add "my" FTN
 >  > address to the PATH during sbbsecho export (and thus by definition, it is
 >  > the only address in the PATH, since I originated the message) ?
 >
 > So I caught the packet that I export - and indeed I do not have a PATH
 > kludge on the exported mail.

Is it being exported to a foreign zone?

 > Is it a setting I have?

Most likely. Check that ZoneBlind = true in your sbbsecho.ini file if you want your PATH and SEEN-BY lines to retain addresses when crossing zone boundaries.

You probably also want to set ZoneBlindThreshold = 4 (4 zones in FidoNet).
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