Subj : Zonegated netmail
To   : deon
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Jan 23 2023 21:19:50

  Re: Zonegated netmail
  By: deon to Digital Man on Tue Jan 24 2023 03:38 pm

 >   Re: Zonegated netmail
 >   By: Digital Man to deon on Mon Jan 23 2023 07:17 pm
 >
 >  > Try using pktdump to view the packet instead. Packets contain packed
 >  > messages with their own headers with destination and origin addresses.
 >  > And there's kludge lines that override address information (i.e. INTL).
 >  > Perhaps somebody's confused about that?
 >
 > For some reason I dont have pktdump - but that's OK because I wrote my own.

exec/pktdump, it's built automatically when you build sbbs on Linux.

 > But your 2nd last statement is probably the reason.
 >
 > Your tosser (sbbsecho), actually looks inside the packet and uses the INTL
 > instead of using the address in the packet message header? Not quite sure if
 > that is right or wrong, but that's the behaviour?

Yes.

 > (In this case, the INTL kludge has the correct destination (as it always
 > would right?) but the packed message header has a different destination.)
 >
 > Does it ever use the address in the packed message header?

If the INTL header doesn't exist I suppose. You could look at the source
yourself: sbbsecho.c
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