* Originally in binkd
* Crossposted in hotdoged

02 Dec 15 03:31, you wrote to me:

 >> i'm not sure what mailer is normally used with hotdoged... as i
 >> understand it,  there's another set of apps/services that go with it...

 JD> There's a fidonet addon for it, and that handles the mailer portion.

right, that's what i'm talking about above... i just don't recall if it is
binkd or not... apparently it is :)

 >> do you have a packet password set? if yes, how long it is? PKT
 >> passwords can only be eight (8) characters long... session passwords
 >> generally have the same  restriction with standard FTN software because
 >> the initial exchange between  mailers is a PKT but binkd has its own...

 JD> I had a node password set, but it was longer than 8 characters. I
 JD> shortened it, and that seems to have resolved the problem. I need to
 JD> do some more testing, but it looks like one message went through.

there ya go... that's the one bug we know of that can cause the address(es) in
the PKT header to be incorrect...

 JD> This suggests there's a bug somewhere. I don't know whether it's
 JD> hotdoged

it is in hotdoged, already known about and a fix is due soonish...

 JD> or binkd, but apparently if you set a password longer than 8
 JD> characters, the region part of the address (at least in the
 JD> hotdoged->binkd direction) gets munged.

there's no such thing as "the region part of the address"... you have
"zone:net/node.point" and may have "@domain" on the end or "domain#" at the
beginning IIRC when seeing FTN addresses written out normally... each of these
five values has its own field in the fixed size binary PKT header... the
original Type 2 (aka stoneage) packets only have room for zone:net/node... no
point or domain... the next version, Type 2+ has room for zone:net/node.point
but no domain... the third version, Type 2.2 has room for all five...

 >> i think we need more information regarding your installation... you are
 >> running hotdoged on some sort of ""smartphone"" device thing, right??

 JD> Yes, it's running on an android.

ok... i think we've got your problem solved... i've crossposted this to
HOTDOGED, too...

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