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from: Patrick Vittori
date: 2009-03-16 10:40:24
subject: IREX 2.29 acting badly

Greets,

 I BETA test the BBS software I run and have been doing testing of the
mail utilities upgrades over the last 2 weeks. I'd set up 3 dummy
points off my system under my Fido AKA to test exports, mail pkt size
variations and multiple daily pkt generation. None of the points were
listed in IREX for what I thought would be "security reasons", as I
didn't want the mail going out ANYWHERES!

 Unfortunately IREX 2.29 had a _better_ idea and tossed 1.2+ Mb of
mail to, of all things, 2 Othernet AKAs that I used to have in my node
manager. 1 was a downlink off my system an the other was the mail feed
into here. It didn't toss them via their Fido AKAs, Noooooo... via the
Othernet Zone Number.

 I disconnected from that Zone thinking that the problem was solved,
only to read in the outbound log that IREX did it again. This time it
tossed 1.5+ Mb to my Fido uplink and the same amount to the Zone
number I connect to the programmer I beta test for. It appears that
this time nothing was sent.

 Both times the mail pkts generated remained in the outbound point
dir, which was totally confusing since the uplink for the Othernet was
the one who brought this problem to my attention since the mail WAS
tossed into his bad mail msg area.

 I need some help figuring out -=WHY=- IREX would toss mail not
intended for another node, much less to another Zone. Also, any help
in explaining what I can do to prevent this in the future as I'm not
through testing the mail areas.


TIA

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