Subj : Question on FTS-0001
To   : All
From : deon
Date : Sun Oct 08 2023 03:08 pm

Howdy,

I have a user who is having trouble importing echomail mail from clrghouz (my mailer/tosser) using BBBS (other users appear to not be affected).

In FTS-0001, section C.1 regarding a packed message, it states:

      PakdMessage  = 02H 00H           (* message type, old type-1 obsolete *)
                     origNode          (* of message *)
                     destNode          (* of message *)
                     origNet           (* of message *)
                     destNet           (* of message *)

So assume this scenario, an echomail message originates from node 1/1, and is sent to it's hub 2/2. The hub then sends the message onto node 3/3.

When the hub (2/2) exports and packs the message for 3/3, is the "origNode", "origNet" 2 (for the hub), or 1 (because that is where the message originated from).

From my testing, I think both at least hpt and mbse use 2 for the origNode/origNet - but FTSC says "of message", which I originally interpretted that it needed to be "1" since the "message" originated from 1/1.

It also says this "Due to routing, the origin and destination net and node of a packet are often quite different from those of the messages within it", which would be true for netmail, but is it also true for echomail?

Have I missed an FTSC document that states echomail should use the hub's details?


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