27 Sep 15 08:07, you wrote to me:

 TK>>> Ok, it seems that hotdog requires the pkt password to be same in
 TK>>> both netmail and echomail bundles.

 ml>> yes, of course... if packet level passwords are turned on in any FTN
 ml>> software, then all PKTs should have that password in place...

 TK> Not necessarily.. GEcho for example can be configured to ignore the
 TK> .pkt password.

true... as can numerous other tossers... but that's only getting around the
problem and not solving it...

 TK>>> I turned pkt password off in boss and now netmail seems to come ok
 TK>>> to hotdog.

 TK>>> Netmail was always with no pkt password.

 ml>> there's something wrong with that boss' configuration, then...

 TK> Yes and no. :)

 TK> There's only one password to define in hotdog, what is it used for?
 TK> Session and areafix yes, but .pkt, how?

in many cases with traditional software, the session and PKT passwords have to
be the same... this is because the first packet of the session is a PKT and
must have the proper password for the session... since it is a PKT carrying the
session info, the PKT password must also be the same... from what you wrote,
hotdog needs a little work on its password stuff because session and areafix
passwords ideally should never be the same...

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... January 20th 2013 - The Continuation Of An Error.
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