-=> Quoting Greg Mayman to Mark Lewis <=-

 -=> Mark Lewis said to Greg Mayman
 -=> about "NETMAIL?" on 04-30-03  05:44.....
 
 ML> i haven't seen anything via netmail as of yet... not knowing what area
 ML> it showed up in or what software is involved, i can only guess at
 ML> either an addressing format problem or extracting of the message for
 ML> off system delivery... there could also be a routing problem but i
 ML> suspect one of the first two... it is possible that you have inbound
 ML> due to manual operations by the sysop...

 GM> I have just checked the copy of the message that was downloaded
 GM> after the upload and I see it doesn't show any address
 GM> information.

 GM> I'm not sure how to format the To: field for netmail or how to do
 GM> the first line method, as it's years since I tried either one.

 GM> I'll try some variations with copies of this message.

 GM> The problem is that I remember the correct format for the To:
 GM> field. IIRC the format for the "first line" style was the same as
 GM> the header To: field, whatever that might have been. There
 GM> isn't any reference in the Blue wave docs to netmail addressing
 GM> format.

With properly set up *fidonet* compatible software, you should get a
*seperate* prompt for the Fidonet address. It doesn't go in the To:
field. It goes in a field of its own.

On BBSes, netmail has its own "area" theat's seperate from all the
echomail and local message areas.

 GM> ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30

Ok, you are using Blue Wave. There should be an area with a Type of
Net. Not, "Local" and not "Echo". If there isn't, you
aren't *allowed*
to send netmail according to the BBS/Mailer configuration.

I think you are getting netmail addressing confused with the kludges
for sending netmail to an Internet address,

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