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    From Richard Vonzel@FILECABI to All on Sun Jan 5 14:49:00 2025
    How does Synchronet deal with the nodelist for fidonet?

    Rick.

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  • From Digital Man to Richard Vonzel on Sun Jan 5 14:55:03 2025
    Re: Nodelist
    By: Richard Vonzel to All on Sun Jan 05 2025 02:49 pm

    How does Synchronet deal with the nodelist for fidonet?

    It doesn't. There are some add-ons that allow sysops (users?) to browse a nodelist for names/addresses (e.g. to send a netmail), but I think that's about it with regards to a FidoNet nodelist. I haven't used a nodelist for fidonet in decades, personally.
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  • From Richard Vonzel@1:282/1038 to Digital Man on Sun Jan 5 17:21:52 2025
    It doesn't. There are some add-ons that allow sysops (users?) to browse a nodelist for names/addresses (e.g. to send a netmail), but I think
    that's about it with regards to a FidoNet nodelist. I haven't used a nodelist for fidonet in decades, personally.


    I guess my question was badly worded. How does Synchronet send net mail without using a nodelist?

    Rick

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  • From Digital Man to Richard Vonzel on Sun Jan 5 15:36:02 2025
    Re: Re: Nodelist
    By: Richard Vonzel to Digital Man on Sun Jan 05 2025 05:21 pm

    I guess my question was badly worded. How does Synchronet send net mail without using a nodelist?

    However your mailer is configured to deliver netmail. BinkIt, the mailer that comes with Synchronet, uses the BinkP settings in sbbsecho.ini to find the hostname/IP address of the linked destination node (if configured), or it can route the netmail message (through a hub) if so configured in sbbsecho.ini, or it can use DNS lookups to find the IP address of the node and deliver the netmail message direct (if it supports BinkP/TCP connections).
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