[nos-bbs] JNOS and Winlink interfacing -- close but stuck

[John Goerzen]

Hi folks,

I'm John KR0L from Kansas.  I am a long-time Linux person and have 
recently taken an interest in Winlink.  I can, of course, connect to an 
RMS node and read mail manually.  It's not very convenient, and I 
noticed that JNOS is said to work with it.  I've gotten it about 75% of 
the way there but can't quite make it happen.

So, I've found the Winlink notes at 
http://www.langelaar.net/projects/jnos2/documents/JnosWL2Knotes.txt as 
well as the TCP info at 
http://www.langelaar.net/projects/jnos2/documents/changes.txt which 
seems to be slightly dated.  I have set up this in my forward.bbs file:

-------------
wl2k P
tcp 203.59.28.61 8772 telpac
@
+Callsign :
@
.XXXX
+Password :
@
.CMSTELNET
wl2k
-------------

I, of course, used KR0L in place of XXXX up there; just didn't want to 
make something that's easy to cut and paste into a broken recipe.

(I have not yet set up the kissattach gateway between JNOS and the 
kernel so, for the time being, this made for easier debugging.)

Now then, watching tcpdump, as well as the output of MBOX TRACE ON, I 
can see that this recipe is working.  It is connecting to the remote, 
and the remote is offering mail.  But from my JNOS log, here's where the 
problem lies:

12:29:00  203.59.28.61:8772 - MBOX (wl2k) connected
12:29:02  - recv [[WL2K-2.5.0.1-B2FIHJM$]
]
12:29:02  - recv [Perth CMS >
]
12:29:02  - sending our SID
12:29:02  203.59.28.61:8772 - MBOX (wl2k) forwarding
12:29:03  203.59.28.61:8772 - MBOX (wl2k) FA E X Y Z 0AYJDA2LJK4R 142 
135 0 0
12:29:04  203.59.28.61:8772 - our FBB response is FS -

So Winlink offered a message, and JNOS rejected it with FS -.  Why JNOS 
rejected it, I don't know; perhaps it didn't like message type E, or the 
sender bbs X, Y, Z, etc.  But that's just supposition.

In the end, this is supposed to work, and I don't think that the TCP 
layer is to blame, since it is talking, and WL2K does offer a message 
when I think it should.  But yet JNOS rejects it.

Any ideas on what my next steps should be?

Thanks,

-- John