[nos-bbs] Minimal local mail forwarding setup?

[Bob Tenty]

The magic is in the rewrite file!

*@k1bbs    $1
*@k1bbs.*  $1

*@*.ampr.org   $1@$2.ampr.org

For internet mail entries like these are handy. (for top level domains)

*@*.net    $1@$2.net
*@*.com   $1@$2.com
*@*.ca      $1@$2.ca
*@*.us      $1@$2.us
*@*.edu   $1@$2.edu
*@*.mil    $1@$2.mil

    can be expanded with other top level domains.

And of course if you don't have an amprnet address put at least
yourself in the domain text.


73,

Bob VE3TOK




On 11-04-13 12:34 AM, Michael Curry wrote:
> 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 <http://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 <http://k1bbs.ampr.org>" and added "domain suffix 
> ampr.org <http://ampr.org>." to my autoexec.nos file, and changed my 
> domain.txt file to:
> ----------
> localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
> k1bbs.ampr.org <http://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 <http://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 
> <mailto: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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