Re: Send Netmail invalid?
By: Joe Delahaye to Xucaen on Tue May 09 2017 07:36 pm

How are y ou addressing the netmail? Should be somebody@1:123/456 in the TO:

Well, I guess that's the confusing part, the binkd nodelist shows the address should be 1:123/456@fidonet. I recall back in the day with Binkleyterm it was sufficient to just do 1:123/456 without any name or domain. I guess with all the new technology being retrofitted to BBSes it's hard to keep the new addressing scheme straight.

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Re: Re: Send Netmail invalid?
By: Lord Time to Xucaen on Tue May 09 2017 04:09 pm

that would be Cascades II BBS is down for good, sorry :(

Yeah, I know, I have since removed it from my binkD nodelist, and later was trying to send netmail to 1:320/219 and got the same error. I'd like it if the BBS would just accept the address as valid instead of forcing me to put a name on it. It's not so easy to know what the name should be abyways.. is it Andrew Leary@, or andrew_leary@, or AndrewLeary@, and what if he doesn't even use that name on the bbs? He should still see the mail because he is the sysop even if I send it to joeshmoe@...

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On 2017 May 19 22:08:20, you wrote to Lord Time:

that would be Cascades II BBS is down for good, sorry :(

Yeah, I know, I have since removed it from my binkD nodelist, and later

was

trying to send netmail to 1:320/219 and got the same error. I'd like it if the BBS would just accept the address as valid instead of forcing me to

put

a name on it.

there has to be a name or the receiving end won't know who's mailbox to put it in...

It's not so easy to know what the name should be abyways.. is it
Andrew Leary@, or andrew_leary@, or AndrewLeary@, and what if he
doesn't even use that name on the bbs? He should still see the mail because he is the sysop even if I send it to joeshmoe@...

nope, it don't always work like that... SBBS is a perfect example... it is really hard to go and read other folks' private mails...

in any case, if you are sending to the sysop of the remote system, just put sysop@[their_address] and go on... once you get the hang of it, it will come naturally with more use over time...

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Re: Send Netmail invalid?
By: Xucaen to Joe Delahaye on Fri May 19 2017 21:58:00

How are y ou addressing the netmail? Should be somebody@1:123/456 in
the TO:

Well, I guess that's the confusing part, the binkd nodelist shows the address should be 1:123/456@fidonet. I recall back in the day with Binkleyterm it was sufficient to just do 1:123/456 without any name or domain. I guess with all the new technology being retrofitted to BBSes it's hard to keep the new addressing scheme straight.

The binkd method is not how you address netmail in Synchronet though. What you describe I think, is how you set up the list of nodes you connect to in Binkd.


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that would be Cascades II BBS is down for good, sorry :(

Yeah, I know, I have since removed it from my binkD nodelist, and later was trying to send netmail to 1:320/219 and got the same error.

ok

I'd like it if
the BBS would just accept the address as valid instead of forcing me to put a name on it.

yell at it's maker of the ftn

It's not so easy to know what the name should be abyways.. is
it Andrew Leary@, or andrew_leary@, or AndrewLeary@, and what if he doesn't even use that name on the bbs? He should still see the mail because he is the sysop even if I send it to joeshmoe@...

it's Andrew Leary@

the only reason I know he in my ibbs league



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