Hi all,

Just playing around with synchronet on a VM and i'm a little confused when it comes to netmail setup..

I have just set myself up as a 21:3/999 trying to send a netmail to my mystic bbs by sending to toofargone@21:3/179 but looking in the logs it's trying to connect to f179.n3.z21.fsxnet.nz:24554. I assume in synchronet netmail uses a different setup than echomail since it's not trying to connect to the node i've set up for my hub.

Can someone steer me in the right direction to get netmail for 21:ALL to connect to the binkp hostname for my hub?

Thanks!

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Just playing around with synchronet on a VM and i'm a little confused when it comes to netmail setup..

I have just set myself up as a 21:3/999 trying to send a netmail to my mystic bbs by sending to toofargone@21:3/179 but looking in the logs it's trying to connect to f179.n3.z21.fsxnet.nz:24554.

That will work assuming that the dns setup at fsxnet.nz is setup to to send that traffic to your hostname. I think it is meant to but might need an update.

I assume in synchronet netmail uses a different setup than echomail since it's not trying to connect to the node i've set up for my hub.

There are two ways to do this..

1) Add the fsxnet (and other useful nodelists) nodelist to your sbbsecho.ini so BinkIT will use that info to connect with other nodes.

2) Add 21:3/179 as a linked node including any passwords (if needed) and host name so the mailer will know where/how to connect.

Can someone steer me in the right direction to get netmail for 21:ALL to connect to the binkp hostname for my hub?

I think one of the above steps will do the trick.

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I think one of the above steps will do the trick.

Thanks! I'll check it out tomorrow, too tired to work it all out tonight!

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Michael Borthwick wrote to All <=-

Hi all,

I have just set myself up as a 21:3/999 trying to send a netmail to my mystic bbs by sending to toofargone@21:3/179 but looking in the logs
it's trying to connect to f179.n3.z21.fsxnet.nz:24554. I assume in synchronet netmail uses a different setup than echomail since it's not trying to connect to the node i've set up for my hub.

Do you have a nodelist set up in ECHOCFG? If there's not a nodelist set
up, it'll try to use the DNS setting for the zone it's sending to.

There's a .js file now called init-fidonet.js that does all of the setup
for you - even is coded to allow you to request a node number from
Fidonet or many other othernets - and configures the BBS for you.




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Michael Borthwick wrote to All <=-

Can someone steer me in the right direction to get netmail for 21:ALL
to connect to the binkp hostname for my hub?

In your sbbsecho.ini, make sure you have an entry for your hub, then this should work:

[node:21:ALL]
Name =
Comment =
Archive = ZIP
PacketType = 2+
PacketPwd =
AreaFix = false
AreaFixPwd =
SessionPwd =
TicFilePwd =
Inbox =
Outbox =
Passive = false
Direct = false
Notify = false
Keys =
Status = Normal
Route = 21:1/100 <--- YOUR HUB ID GOES HERE!
GroupHub =
BinkpHost =
BinkpPort = 24554
BinkpPoll = false
BinkpPlainAuthOnly = false
BinkpAllowPlainAuth = false
BinkpAllowPlainText = true
BinkpTLS = false
BinkpSourceAddress =

To my knowledge, "Route =" is the only entry that matters for this 21:ALL entry. I left all the other fields as defaults.


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