Re: Issue with BinkD and outbound attempts.
  By: Oli to Tony Langdon on Sat Mar 28 2020 12:54:59


 Oli> If binkd's  parameter is intented to have the same
 Oli> meaning as "the default zone" in FTS-5005 than using the same
 Oli> zone number for all "domain" lines is the right configuration
 Oli> (and not a workaround).

don't get confused by the chicken and the egg syndrome... binkd came first and
the FTSC documents came after ;)

 Oli> It is counterintuitive though and the example binkd.cfg files
 Oli> suggests you should use the zone number of the network.

exactly why using the same default zone for all domains is a workaround which
also leads to all domain directories having the hex zone extension on them...

i had several discussions with a few of the binkd devs in here some years back
when i was working on my 4DOS/4OS2 BSO scripts... i was told that for proper
5D, only the first directory for each FTN domain's outbound directory has no
hex zone extension on it... all the others do...

then there's this from the binkd FAQ... this quote is from one i saved back in
2017 so the question number may be off but anyway, it is #22 here...


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        22. Different FTN Domains in binkd And a Tosser Without 5D Support

    Suppose there are two domains (with different zone numbers though it
does not matter).  Mail can be successfully sent to the first domain but
not to the second one. This situation may arise if the tosser, the tracker
and the other your FTN programs do not support 5D BSO.

    This is a typical binkd configuration for two FTN domains and 5D
outbound:

    domain fidonet c:\\ftn\\outbound\\fidonet 2
    domain omeganet c:\\ftn\\outbound\\omeganet 11
    address 2:5070/222@fidonet 11:58/6@omeganet

    One must configure not the zone of your own address for 'domain'
keyword as one might think but the zone that should not be appended to the
outbound name (i.e. the outbound subdirectory extensions are not processed
for the zone denoted in the 'domain' line).

    If your tosser would create bundles for omeganet in the omeganet
directory then you should write as indicated above. But since it does not
work with 5D and it creates the bundles in fidonet.00b then you should
write this way:

    domain fidonet c:\\ftn\\outbound\\fidonet 2
    domain omeganet c:\\ftn\\outbound\\fidonet 2
    address 2:5070/222@fidonet 11:58/6@omeganet

    It is obligatory to configure all your addresses with domains. The
outbound directory and the path should be the same everywhere (4D tosser
considers all addresses to belong to one domain).

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i did (finally) find the text of a message where stas replied to me in
reference to my questions about 5D while working on my 4DOS/4OS2 scripts... i
think this was back in about 2011 going by the version of his golded...
unfortulately i cannot currently get to the actual header of his message...


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Hello mark.

25 Jul 12 17:04, you wrote to me:

 ml> eg:
 ml> domain fidonet x:\\bink\\outbound\\fidonet 1
 ml> domain quartz x:\\bink\\outbound\\quartz 123

 ml> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET
 ml> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .002
 ml> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .003
 ml> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .004
 ml> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .005
 ml> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .006
OK
 ml> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\QUARTZ  .07B
Invalid, should be:
X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\QUARTZ
 ml> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\QUARTZ  .07C
 ml> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\QUARTZ  .07D
OK
 ml> the above indicates fidonet is zones 1,2,3,4,5,6 and quartz is
 ml> 123,124,125??

Zone 123 specified as "default for the domain quartz" and outbound directory
for 123:*@quartz should be without number in suffix.

 ml> and if i have foobar net with zone 124 (duplicate zone, different
 ml> domain) then...

 ml> domain fidonet x:\\bink\\outbound\\fidonet 1
 ml> domain quartz x:\\bink\\outbound\\quartz 123
 ml> domain foobar x:\\bink\\outbound\\foobar 124

 ml> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET
 ml> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .002
 ml> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .003
 ml> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .004
 ml> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .005
 ml> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .006
OK
 ml> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FOOBAR  .07C
 ml> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\QUARTZ  .07B
Invalid, should be:
X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FOOBAR
X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\QUARTZ

 ml> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\QUARTZ  .07C
 ml> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\QUARTZ  .07D
OK
 ml> the above indicates fidonet is zones 1,2,3,4,5,6... foobar is 124...
 ml> quartz is 123,124,125???

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i've taken and used the above as the definitive format for a proper 5D outbound
directory layout ever since... specifically, the *default outbound for each
domain has no hex zone extension* on it while all the others do...


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