Subj : Re: Gating issue
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Paul Hayton
Date : Wed Oct 02 2019 05:18 pm

On 30 Sep 2019 at 10:56a, Wilfred van Velzen pondered and said...
 
 Wv>  Wv>> 13:22:25.832  Warning: Found netmail kludge in echomail: INTL 3:770/
 Wv>  Wv>> 3:770/3
 Wv> 
 Wv>  PH> OK thanks, so the INTL kludge should not be there - correct?
 Wv> 
 Wv> That's correct, it shouldn't...

Interesting, I've had a quick laymans look at the FTSC.ORG docs and there's a
couple of mentions of the INTL kludge.

The first seems to talk about it as a tool to help routing mail between zones
and zone gates. The discussion doc about INTL talks of Usenet as being seen as
another zone. Netmail as a term is not used in that earlier doc from 1987

The second doc talks explicitly about using INTL as a netmail addressing
control line. Written in 1995 it talks about a new version of the kludge to
replace INTL, TOPT, FMPT, MSGTO and DOMAIN

"It is differentiated  from  the  old  INTL control by the presence of the
colon ":".  The colon  also makes it fully compliaint with the control line
convention specified in FTS1." says the doc.

I just mention this as it looks like the gateway software is not using a
colon in it's kludge.

I'm wondering if the intention from the developer was to implement the kludge
according to the 1980's spec and usage?

A quick check so far of the config options for the software don't look
hopeful I can amend anything. Sorry.

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