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echo: binkd
to: JOACIM MELIN
from: NICHOLAS BOEL
date: 2016-03-06 13:06:00
subject: Re: Binkd woes...

Hello Joacim,

On 06 Mar 16 18:56, Joacim Melin wrote to All:

 JM> I got hold of Amibinkd version 9.00 and it still crashes after a few
 JM> hours, on both my Amigas (68020 and 68030).  So I caved and brought my
 JM> old Binkd up on a Linux box.

 JM> The idea is to let the Linux box handle incoming and outgoing
 JM> messages. It works - almost.  The incoming stuff works fine - my
 JM> tosser takes the packages and does it's thing over a SMB connection to
 JM> my file server.

 JM> The part that doesn't work is outgoing mail/netmail. The packets just
 JM> sits there in the outgoing folder and Binkd on Linux doesn't touch
 JM> them. I force a connection to the node that's supposed to recieve the
 JM> package and nothing is sent from my end.

 JM> I have checked every path in every configuration file and there is
 JM> nothing wrong.  I can not for the life of me understand why Amibinkd
 JM> crashes all the time but that's what you get for using a 30 year old
 JM> computer. I also cannot understand why Binkd on Linux doesn't care
 JM> about the packets in the outbound folder - a setting I have missed?

Did you by chance enable amiga style outbound? Your outgoing messages are
probably still in amiga style, whereas the Linux version of binkd handles BSO
differently (ie: NNNNnnnn.?lo where NNNN is the 4 digit hex for net and nnnn is
4 digit hex for node.

Regards,
Nick

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