Subj : PATH kludge on exported echomail
To   : Digital Man
From : deon
Date : Thu Feb 03 2022 16:47:20

  Re: PATH kludge on exported echomail
  By: Digital Man to deon on Wed Feb 02 2022 07:18 pm

Hey DM,

 >  > 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).

Thanks - Indeed, I had ZoneBlind = false, and ZoneBlindThreshold = 65535.

So this has raised a couple of questions:

* Does zoneblind=true result in the PATH being scrubbed when a message is being exported to another zone?

* (I assume the above is yes) - is the SEEN-BY scrubbed as well ? (my address *was* in the SEEN-BY, but I guess that makes sense, so the (foreign zone) system I'm exporting too doesnt send the message back to me?)

* When you scrub the PATH, do you add any other kludges to show that the scrubbing occured by me? (I've seen others with zonegating software create a GATE kludge that I guess could indicate which system the message was gated through (and thus that system reset the PATH/SEEN-BY kludges).


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