Hi,

I'm running Irex, Squish and Telegard on OS/2. Echomail and Netmail are working fine with one exception. I am getting Netmail addressed to All
@1/0.0 in the sysop account. This only shows when I'm logged into that account from the console.

I have poured over the manuals for all three programs of course and have
tried a few things, but I can't prevent the sysop user from receiving these. Ultimately I'd like my setup to just trash them. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Doug

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Doug Mccomber wrote to All:

I'm running Irex, Squish and Telegard on OS/2. Echomail and Netmail
are working fine with one exception. I am getting Netmail addressed
to All @1/0.0 in the sysop account. This only shows when I'm logged
into that account from the console.

I have poured over the manuals for all three programs of course and
have tried a few things, but I can't prevent the sysop user from
receiving these. Ultimately I'd like my setup to just trash them.
Any suggestions?

How many route.*** files do you have? Your tosser and Irex should each
have identical route files. Telegard I have no experience with, but in
using a message reader such as GoldEd with FE and REX, there is no route
file associated with GD...

I'd look for a misconfigured node in the IREX Nodes configs, and the same
in your Squish and Telegard configs.

BTW, if you quoted your 'to all' correctly, that isn't correct 4D
addressing in any case.


R\%/itt


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I'm running Irex, Squish and Telegard on OS/2. Echomail and
Netmail are working fine with one exception. I am getting Netmail addressed to All @1/0.0 in the sysop account. This only shows
when I'm logged into that account from the console.

where are they coming from? what do the (hidden) control lines contain? can your system unpack the bundles and save the PKTs before tossing so they can be investigated for problems like this later?

I have poured over the manuals for all three programs of course and
have tried a few things, but I can't prevent the sysop user from receiving these. Ultimately I'd like my setup to just trash them.
Any suggestions?

you're running squish as your tosser? you might be able to use netmgr to detect
them in the squish bases and remove them but you probably should move them to another special area for investigation in case something necessary gets in there... then manually delete them after you go thru them...

are they actual messages or spam or misdirected messages that should go elsewhere??

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How many route.*** files do you have? Your tosser and Irex should
each have identical route files. Telegard I have no experience with,
but in using a message reader such as GoldEd with FE and REX, there
is no route file associated with GD...

I'd look for a misconfigured node in the IREX Nodes configs, and the
same in your Squish and Telegard configs.

The route files are the same. Next I checked the node configuration. Only thing I changed there is "System Addresses". I thought that was supposed to be the address of my hub but I changed it to my own address. Hasn't seemed
to make a difference either way.

But then at Mark's suggestion I looked at the hidden headers and I saw the netmail was actually supposed to be going to the newsgroup alttest which I have gated in Irex. As I don't need/want alttest I simply deleted the gate, and any reference to it in Squish or Telegard. All is well now!

Thanks,
Doug

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where are they coming from? what do the (hidden) control lines
contain? can your system unpack the bundles and save the PKTs before tossing so they can be investigated for problems like this later?

Turns out these mysterious netmails were actually intended for a newsgroup alttest that I have set up in Irex as a gate. I have other newsgroups gated that are working fine and I didn't see where I mucked this one up. Anyway, I just deleted it as I don't want or need it. And since doing so I haven't had any issues with unwanted netmail.

Thanks,
Doug

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Doug Mccomber wrote to Roy Witt:

How many route.*** files do you have? Your tosser and Irex should
each have identical route files. Telegard I have no experience with,
but in using a message reader such as GoldEd with FE and REX, there
is no route file associated with GD...

I'd look for a misconfigured node in the IREX Nodes configs, and the
same in your Squish and Telegard configs.

The route files are the same. Next I checked the node configuration.
Only thing I changed there is "System Addresses". I thought that was supposed to be the address of my hub but I changed it to my own
address. Hasn't seemed to make a difference either way.

Ok.

But then at Mark's suggestion I looked at the hidden headers and I
saw the netmail was actually supposed to be going to the newsgroup
alttest which I have gated in Irex. As I don't need/want alttest I
simply deleted the gate, and any reference to it in Squish or
Telegard. All is well now!

You know of course that your gateway address should be a point and not a
node, right? It shouldn't be anything else used in Irex, like your hub or server.


R\%/itt


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You know of course that your gateway address should be a point and
not a node, right? It shouldn't be anything else used in Irex, like
your hub or server.

Yes, and that is how I have it set up for the 6 other newsgroups that I am successfully gating.

Thanks,
Doug

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