Subj : fastecho toss
To   : Marty Kazmaier
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Wed Jun 06 2007 12:15 am

Hi! Marty,

On 05 Jun 07 02:57, you wrote to me:

 >>  MK> +  7:21:47  AF.PKT from 1:138/389 to 1:382/33 (00FE, Type 2+)
 >> What's the main address set for in this config, Marty?  Is it
 >> 1:382/33?  (As it should be.)

 MK> That's what's weird.  My inbound and outbound (queue in the case of
 MK> irex) appear to be set correctly, yet the above happens often.
 MK> 1:138/389 is me, so why's mail to me in there?

No, the packet is =from= your system going =to= Daryl's system.  Does Daryl 
know he might be on the receiving end of some raw mail packets?

What program produced it?  That product code (00FE) isn't FastEcho.

In any case, it might be worth your while actually setting a 'temporary 
outbound' directory path in your config as there's a good chance FastEcho is 
using the iRex queue as one.  (Same goes for the other 'inbound' types as well, 
just so that they have some sort of values better than null.)

 >> There's a few little things that can be done by way of the 'load
 >> order' of various doo-hickeys going into either high or low
 >> (conventional) memory, by way of your Config.sys and AutoExec.bat
 >> setup.  What version of Windows are you using?  (I've stuck with
 >> Win98se... the last bestest DOS.)

 MK> I'm using Win2KPro SP4.  I would be running xp, but my xp box is using
 MK> x64 SP2 and doesn't support 16-bit dos at all.  config.nt and
 MK> autoexec.nt are blank.

Whoops.  From lurking in the Win95 echo, I've been led to believe that Win2K 
has the absolute minimum support for DOS apps, and, a person has to know how to 
get it to perform properly (and that's not me, BTW).  You've picked one of the 
very worst versions of Windows to attempt running a DOS-based node on, Marty.

My wife's machine (XP Pro) takes a month of Sundays to just do simple stuff 
with my BBS/mailer configs.  It's a real PITA and I very rarely use it; 'blue 
moon' stuff.

I recommend you hunt down a copy of Win98se.

Cheers,
Paul.

.... I tried an internal modem, once, but it hurt when I walked.
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