On 2018 Jul 03 20:37:18, you wrote to me:

 ml>> no... "quote attribution line"... the one at the top... specifically,
 ml>> the one in robert's post showing a binkp.net address for ben's system
 ml>> 

 PH> Ahh you mean

 PH> -> From: nospam.Ben.Ritchey@f68.n393.z1.binkp.net (Ben Ritchey)
 PH> -> Subject: Re: BUG !!!

yes...

 PH> Well that's the gateway software I am running. I thought binkp.net had
 PH> usurped the role of fidonet.org as the latter had been lost to squatters
 PH> while the former is a service offered to all who sign up?

AFAIK, binkp.net is /only/ for fidonet address fnz conversion lookups... i
doubt that binkp.net accepts email for fidonet systems and gates it to netmail
but it is possible... i'm testing that theory right now 

ahhh! ok... it does work but


  1. there has to be an entry in binkp.net which there should be since it is
maintained from the nodelist.

  2. there is no email->netmail conversion done by binkp.net.

  3. the SMTP server initially receiving the email performs the lookup on
binkp.net.

  4. if there is a valid IP for the fnz address, the SMTP server will attempt
to connect to a SMTP server at that IP.


i tested this by sending a test email to myself via my f12.n3634.z1.binkp.net
address... i sent one through my ISP and their SMTP mailer connected directly
to my perimeter SMTP mailer to deliver the test message... i sent another one
through gmail... it also looked up my address on binkp.net and connected
directly to my perimeter SMTP server for delivery...

now here's where it gets tricky over here... on my perimeter firewall, i run a
mod that provides a SMTP server... this is my perimeter SMTP server as noted
above... it is inbound only and it scans and validates all inbound emails
before they are bounced or sent to one of my three internal SMTP servers... i
watched the messages being validated on one of my internal SMTP servers but the
 perimeter SMTP server didn't know the destination address was valid for one of
 the SMTP servers on this site so it rejected both test messages... i have some
 configuring to do :LOL:

i have not (yet) seen a bounce from the test message i sent to ben's address
above... it might take a while to bounce if that's what it is going to do... i
don't know if ben has a SMTP server or if he has one that knows his address is
also f68.n393.z1.binkp.net in addition to any other domain addresses he has...

this test has actually been quite informative O


!ALSO! in light of this testing, i fully retract my previous statement about
the address being invalid... It.Is.Valid... whether or not there is a SMTP
server at the IP returned by binkp.net is another matter... if that SMTP server
 will accept inbound emails addressed to that binkp.net address is another 2nd
matter to deal with...



FWIW: above i say that i have some configuring to do... yeah, on three of the
SMTP servers living here... adding an ""alias"" on two of them and routing on
the third... whew... at least a quick mental rundown seems to point to that
being what needs done... hehahahahehe...


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