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echo: binkley
to: Andrew Leary
from: Null
date: 1996-08-12 09:12:42
subject: Re: packet passwords

On 09 Aug 96  22:45:56, Andrew Leary said the following to Scot Woodward:

AL>  SW> It seems that whenever I get an uncompressed packet (BLAH.PKT) from my
AL>  SW> uplink, the packet password turns out to be the session password.  My
AL>  SW> uplink says that everything seems fine on his end, and nothing gets
AL>  SW> run in between Binkley and Squish (which complains about the
AL>  SW> password), so my guess is that Binkley is doing it.

AL> I doubt that, since Binkley doesn't do anything with packet files except se
AL> and receive them.  Does your uplink use FrontDoor or InterMail?  These mail
AL> use the session password for the packet password in any NetMail packets the
AL> create.

The uplink uses Intermail.

I suppose the solution is to make the packet and session passwords the same?

Thanks for your help, and thanks also to the others who have responded.

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