* Crossposted from: LoraBBS software

Steve Hayes is replying to Russell Tiedt, who wrote to Steve Hayes on 02
Jan 99  19:48:31:

 SH> At my end it's not Maximus, but BinkleyTerm, which is the mailer I'm
 SH> using.  
 SH> But if you are using the built-in mailer in Lora at your end, it must
 SH> be a Lora setting that has changed. Can you think of anything you
 SH> might have changed recently? 
 SH> Did you look at the event settings?
 RT> 
 RT> I have looked at every thing I can think of, I spent the better part
 RT> of this  morning installing Lora on my second machine, I will attempt
 RT> to connect from my current system ( WINNT ), if this does not work
 RT> will switch the modem to  the other machine ( MSDOS 6.22 ) and try
 RT> again. 
 SH> Perhasp rather than reinstalling everything from scratch, you could
 SH> receate the event settings, starting with the default one.  
 SH> I still ge the message that your system has refused mail packets.
 RT> 
 RT> Then it is definitely Lora that refuses the mail packets.

Yes, that's the message I get "Remote refused packetname"

And unfortunately, once the remote system has refused the packet, Binkley
seems to think it already has it, and deletes it, so if you try again
immediately afterward, you wouldn't pick up anything because it would have
been deleted. 

When did this problem start?

Was it when you installed Windows NT?

 RT> What enviroment settings does Lora require if any? WINNT might have
 RT> changed some of these without telling me, whether this can cause this
 RT> type of problem  I don,t know, will have a look.

I can't think of any that Lora requires - I'll have a look on my test
system, which is also Lora at 8:7903/11 picking up from BinkleyTerm at
8:79/42.

The only problem I can see there is that Binkley returns the message 

"Called 8:79/42 and got 8:7903/2" 

I'm not sure why that is - it is one of the AKAs for the node, but it is
not the one that I use for mail, and it is also not the first one listed in
the BINKLEY.CFG file either. One problem I have with it is that all mail
sent from Blue Wave reports 8:7903/2 as the return address instead of
8:79/42, but as long as people route mail for 8:7903/2 via 8:79/42 it
doesn't seem to matter too much.

Yours seemed to be working fine until a few weeks ago, so I'm not sure what
has changed. I'll check my settings in Watergate again too - perhaps it is
using one of the other AKAs to pack mail for your system. One thing you
could so is send an Areafix message to 8:7903/10, with with your areafix
password in the subject line, and %QUERY and %LIST in the body of the
message, and we can see what conferences you are listed for. 

Keep well,

Steve Hayes
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