[nos-bbs] Minimal local mail forwarding setup?

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Mike drop me a note at arto at ns.sympatico.ca 
and we can go over it if you like...Art
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Curry 
  To: nos-bbs at tapr.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 1:34 AM
  Subject: Re: [nos-bbs] Minimal local mail forwarding setup?


  Well, gee, the more I look into this, the more confused I get...

  First of all, regarding the line I tried putting into domain.txt:

  127.0.0.1 IN A k1bbs

  The reason it didn't look right was that... it *wasn't* right. I had imitated the format that I found on page 87 of "Networking Without Wires: Radio Based TCP/IP" (ftp://ftp.tapr.org/projects/n8urbook/n8ur-dr1.pdf), which was wrong. 

  But even after sorting that out, and fixing my domain.txt file to look like:
  ---------
  localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
  k1bbs IN A 127.0.0.1
  ---------
  ... still no joy.

  Next, although N8UR strongly advocates putting "localhost" into domain.txt, other examples out there (such as the one at http://mysite.verizon.net/ka1fsb/domain.html) don't include it. (So was N8UR wrong about that, too?)

  Now, since my machine that hosts JNOS does *not* have an address on the 44 net, and isn't part of the ampr.org domain (remember, I want to get it functioning as a simple, standalone mail drop accessible only via AX.25 and the local "bbs" command), I didn't see any point in setting the domain prefix or giving k1bbs a FQDN. 

  But just to see what would happen, I changed the hostname to "k1bbs.ampr.org" and added "domain suffix ampr.org." to my autoexec.nos file, and changed my domain.txt file to:
  ----------
  localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
  k1bbs.ampr.org. IN A 127.0.0.1
  ----------
  Again, no joy.

  So in a final act of desperation I changed the domain.txt file to:
  ----------
  localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
  k1bbs.ampr.org. IN A 44.128.10.64
  ----------

  And now when I kick SMTP, I get:
  ---------
  Trying Connection to 44.128.10.64
  SMTP client Trying...
  smtp sent: QUIT
  ---------- 
  and no change in the contents of spool/mqueue or spool/mail. 

  Now, obviously, I don't really expect this last configuration to work, since the IP address is bogus -- but at least I'm seeing some different behavior, leading me to (wishfully?) think I'm getting close to the right track.

  But I'm just not seeing what I need to do to tell JNOS that k1bbs is localhost. 

  Anyone? I'm dyin' here...

  M

  On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Michael Curry <dgspotman at gmail.com> wrote:

    Hi all,

    New JNOS user here (about 5 days in), trying to figure out the minimal configuration needed to get local mail (i.e., mail sent from one local user to another) to actually appear in the addressee's mailbox. 
  <snip>


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