Re: Zonegated netmail
  By: deon to Digital Man on Tue Jan 24 2023 07:58 am

 > Hey Rob,
 >
 > Not sure if you are following FN_SYSOP,

Not really.

 > but wanting to understsand why
 > Ward's netmails are being processed by some tossers and bounced by others,
 > when his netmail has zonegate addressed netmail.
 >
 > He sent one to me, sbbsecho happily processed it and gave it to me:
 >
 > Importing /opt/sbbs/fido/nonsecure/11424351.PKT (Type 2e, 0.6KB) from
 > 2:292/854 to 3:633/509
 > Ward Dossche (2:292/854) To: Deon George (3:633/509) Ward Dossche
 > (2:292/854) To: Deon George (3:633/509) Imported
 >
 > But when I look at the packet, the packet is addressed to me (3:633/509),
 > but the netmail in the packet is addressed to "2/3", not "633/509". Why is
 > this ignored? (HPT doesnt seem to be...)
 >
 > 00000000: 56 03 fd 01 e7 07 00 00  17 00 0e 00 18 00 05 00
 > [V...............] 00000010: 60 09 02 00 24 01 79 02  1a 04 00 00 00 00 00
 > 00  [`...$.y.........] 00000020: 00 00 02 00 03 00 00 00  00 01 00 00 01 00
 > 02 00  [................] 00000030: 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 02 00 56
 > 03 03 00  [............V...] 00000040: 24 01 02 00 01 00 00 00  32 33 20 4a
 > 61 6e 20 32  [$.......23 Jan 2] 00000050: 33 20 20 31 34 3a 32 33  3a 30 37
 > 00 44 65 6f 6e  [3  14:23:07.Deon]
 >
 > I have the packet if you need it.

Try using pktdump to view the packet instead. Packets contain packed messages with their own headers with destination and origin addresses. And there's kludge lines that override address information (i.e. INTL). Perhaps somebody's confused about that?
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