Subj : Re: routing to points
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Feb 16 2023 13:20:26

  Re: Re: routing to points
  By: Kurt Weiske to Digital Man on Thu Feb 16 2023 09:38 am

 > -=> Digital Man wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
 >
 >  > Looking at the commit, it looks like it was some time ago, in sbbsecho
 >  > 3.13. My sbbsecho reports version 3.15?
 >
 >  DM> Yes. I'm not sure of your point.
 >
 > Thanks again for looking into this.
 >
 > I wanted to send you my logs and notes from my experiments with point
 > netmail. If I understand the logic, a point that has a boss node defined
 > in sbbsecho.ini should have mail host-routed to the boss.

Only if the point itself is not a configured linked node (in echofg) and the point isn't one of your own configured FTN AKAs.

 > I'm running
 > sbbsecho 3.20, recently updated from the nightly archives.
 >
 > It appears that point mail isn't being host-routed, which the commit you
 > referenced appears to suggest.
 >
 > I did the following:
 >
 > 1. I defined the boss node, 2:221/1 in sbbsecho.ini. I created a netmail to
 > 2:221/1:58 in SBBS. When I run SBBSECHO, I see the netmail being packed.
 >
 >
 >      C:\Users\kweiske>sbbsecho
 >
 >      SBBSecho v3.20-Win32 (master/aa33f300f) - Synchronet FidoNet
 >      EchoMail Tosser
 >
 >      Loading configuration files from c:\sbbs\ctrl\ SBBSecho
 >      3.20-Win32 master/aa33f300f Feb 15 2023 MSC 1929 (PID 5580)
 >      invoked with options: Configured: 6 archivers, 84 linked-nodes,
 >      8 echolists NetMail directory: c:\sbbs\binkit\netmail\ Secure
 >      Inbound directory: c:\sbbs\binkit\inbox\ Non-secure Inbound
 >      directory: c:\sbbs\binkit\inbox\ Outbound (BSO root) directory:
 >      c:\sbbs\binkit\outbox\ Reading ../data/AREAS.BBS Exporting
 >      Outbound NetMail from c:\sbbs\data\mail to
 >      c:\sbbs\binkit\netmail\*.msg ... NetMail msg #13487 from
 >      poindexter FORTRAN to 1:103/1 (1:103/1): already sent NetMail
 >      msg #29046 from Kurt Weiske to August Abolins (2:221/1.58):
 >      Exporting NetMail message #29046 from Kurt Weiske       to
 >      August Abolins (2:221/1.58) Created NetMail (4.msg) from Kurt
 >      Weiske (1:218/700) to August Abolins (2:221/1.58), attr: 0183,
 >      subject: Another

That's not very fun to try to read. :-) Do you mind not re-wrapping the log lines you paste here?


 >      Packing Outbound NetMail from c:\sbbs\binkit\netmail\*.msg ...
 >      Node (2:221/1.58) successfully locked via:
 >      ../binkit/outbox.002\00dd0001.pnt\0000003a.bsy Adding NetMail
 >      (4.msg) to new packet for 2:221/1.58:
 >      ../binkit/outbox.002\00dd0001.pnt\0000003a.cut Deleting
 >      c:\sbbs\binkit\netmail\4.msg (from line 5344)
 >
 >      Touching outgoing semfile: ../data/binkout.now Writing 33 areas
 >      to ../data/badareas.lst Deleting
 >      ../binkit/outbox.002\00dd0001.pnt\0000003a.bsy (from line 2963)
 >      Deleting c:\sbbs\ctrl\sbbsecho.bsy (from line 2969) SBBSecho
 >      (PID 5580) exiting with error level 0, NetMail(0 imported, 1
 >      exported, 1 packed)

My guess is that you have 2:221/1.58 explicitly listed as a linked node in echofg?
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