> Are you sure the passwords you both use for the connection are identical?
 > Case  is important!

Yes.. if I Poll the system it is in secure mode. See log tonight

The only difference is if I have a mail packet to send to that node, then it is
not in secure mode.

  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] send message PWD CRAM-MD5-bc7ae44e6be08b
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] rcvd msg OK secure
+ 17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] pwd protected session (MD5)

17 Nov 20:20:01 [7442] BEGIN, binkd/0.9.11/Linux -p -P 1:3
/home/lindsayFFA/binkd/binkd.cfg
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7442] creating a poll for 1:@fidonet (`i' flavour)
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7442] clientmgr started
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7442] started client #1, id=7443
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] created /home//binkd/outb/4.csy
+ 17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] call to 1:8@fidonet
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] resolving `c.com'...
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] trying ...
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] connected
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] binkp init done, socket # is 3
+ 17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] session with .com ()
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] send message NUL SYS 
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] send message NUL ZYZ 
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] send message NUL LOC 
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] send message NUL NDL 115200,TCP,BINKP
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] send message NUL TIME Thu, 17 Nov 2016 20:20:01 -0500
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] send message NUL VER binkd/0.9.11/Linux binkp/1.1
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] send message ADR  1:@fidonet
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] send message NUL OPT NDA CRYPT
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] touched /home//binkd/outb/01890044.csy
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] rcvd msg NUL OPT CRAM-MD5-f369c1ca8a8974e1da573
- 17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] OPT CRAM-MD5-f369c1ca8a8974e1da57315
+ 17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] Remote requests MD mode
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] rcvd msg NUL SYS 
- 17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] SYS 
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] rcvd msg NUL ZYZ 
- 17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] ZYZ 
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] rcvd msg NUL VER Mystic/1.12A24 binkp/1.0
- 17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] VER Mystic/1.12A24 binkp/1.0
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] remote uses binkp v.1.0
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] rcvd msg ADR 1:@fidonet 1:@fidonet 1:fidonet @fidonet
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] created /home///binkd/outb/4.bsy
+ 17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] addr: 1:@fidonet
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] created /home//binkd/outb/00.bsy
+ 17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] addr: 1:@fidonet
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] created /home//binkd/outb/0.bsy
+ 17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] addr: 1@fidonet
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] created /home//binkd/outb./15.bsy
+ 17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] addr: @fidonet
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] Source IP not checked
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] send message NUL TRF 0 0
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] send message PWD CRAM-MD5-bc7ae44e6be08b
  17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] rcvd msg OK secure
+ 17 Nov 20:20:01 [7443] pwd protected session (MD5)
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