Subj : Re: NetMail in Mystic
To   : PSI-JACK
From : WKITTY42
Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 07:20 pm

On 09/04/14, Psi-Jack said the following...
 
 Ps> Honestly I think it's just a misconfiguration somewhere on his part. He'd
 Ps> mentioned something about binkd.txt, and if I see this correctly, that
 Ps> basically is a nodelist translated into a binkd include file without any
 Ps> kind of passworded sessions, as-if in order to deliver mail directly to
 Ps> a node listed within it. 

there's no misconfiguration from what i see... unless one can say that not
processing mail in the insecure inbound directory is a misconfiguration... it
isn't since the separation of securely and insecurely delivered mail was
specifically to stop the injection of undesirable mail into a system's
processing and having it be passed on to other systems...

if you weren't around in the '90s, you might not know about the stuff that was
being done to create illegitimate echomail posts by combining the headers of
fidonet echomail with the message bodies from some FTN pr0n network and
injecting those pr0n messages into fidonet...

with this came the possibility of netmail landing in the insecure area and not
being processed in a timely manner... some mail tosser software can handle
this to extract and process netmails from the insecure directory while leaving
the echomail alone... some tossers and ""all-in-one"" systems cannot... in
some cases it requres an external tool which may or may not yet exist...

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