Subj : FastEcho + BinkD
To   : troy tuttle
From : mark lewis
Date : Thu Apr 05 2018 10:40 pm


 On 2018 Apr 05 20:02:32, you wrote to All:

 tt> So I'm running BinkD/DOS and Fastecho and I'm noticing that I can't
 tt> get it to send my othernet mail for some reason. My primary FTN (FIDO)
 tt> seems to work flawlessly but if I send netmail to RetroNet it just
 tt> seems to sit there. FE scans and packs it fine, but when I poll my hub
 tt> BinkD seems to do nothing at all.

 tt> Any thoughts? I know it could be either my FE config or my BinkD but I
 tt> think they are setup correctly.

both need to be pointing to the same single outbound directory... FE is only 4D 
aware so it has to use a BSO directory tree like

  c:\FTN\MAIL\OUTBOUND

then if your main address is in Z1, the above directory is for all zone 1 
mail... the others would be like this...

  c:\FTN\MAIL\OUTBOUND.002         - Z2
  c:\FTN\MAIL\OUTBOUND.003         - Z3
  c:\FTN\MAIL\OUTBOUND.004         - Z4
  c:\FTN\MAIL\OUTBOUND.018         - Z24 Sportnet
  c:\FTN\MAIL\OUTBOUND.02e         - Z46 Agoranet
  c:\FTN\MAIL\OUTBOUND.039         - Z57 Gatornet
  c:\FTN\MAIL\OUTBOUND.050         - Z80 Retronet

i've tossed in a few extras so you could see how it works... the extensions are 
hexidecimal for their decimal zone values... so 050 is hexidecimal for 80 
decimal...

in binkd, you would have lines like these for the above same stuff...

  domain fidonet   c:\FTN\MAIL\OUTBOUND  1   binkp.net
  domain sportnet  c:\FTN\MAIL\OUTBOUND  24
  domain agoranet  c:\FTN\MAIL\OUTBOUND  46
  domain gatornet  c:\FTN\MAIL\OUTBOUND  57
  domain retronet  c:\FTN\MAIL\OUTBOUND  80

you don't have to use OUTBOUND like i did above... you could use OUT or FOO or 
WHATEVER as long as it is no longer than 8 characters long... of course, if 
you're working in a DOS environment, this is pretty well enforced unless maybe 
you are using a newer DOS that supports LFNs... even so, though, FE and 
Binkd/DOS are limited to 8.3 format...

also make sure that both software packages list your addresses in the same 
order... the main thing is that the first address, your main one, is the same 
in both... all others are AKAs... it should not matter what order they are in 
but i list all of mine in all my software in the same order just in case... 
besides, it is asthetically pleasing :)

in binkd, also make sure that when you list your addresses, you have the proper 
@fidonet, @sportnet, @retronet, etc... domain on them...

  address 1:234/567.0@fidonet 24:345/678.0@sportnet 80:876/324.0@retronet


so now, with all of that said, is that mail that's not going out in your 
outbound's *.050 directory or is it in another one? if another one, which one?

also, what are the names of the files in your outbound that aren't being sent?

)\/(ark

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