[nos-bbs] email gateway issue

Don Moore ve3zda at gmail.com
Thu Mar 21 21:23:06 EDT 2013


Do you have the following line set in your autoexec.nos?

domain suffix ampr.org.

73, don - ve3zda

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Michael Fox - N6MEF <n6mef at mefox.org>wrote:

> I discovered a problem with JNOS not properly completing the address of
> messages sent to the gateway.  Here’s the situation.****
>
> ** **
>
> Let’s say I use SC to send a message to joe at ham.org, with a copy to
> n6mef.  That is, the message goes to an email address with a copy to a
> local packet user.  Note that the local packet user address does not
> include any “@...”.****
>
> ** **
>
> The message is sent to the email gateway for handling the email.  The
> addresses that the email gateway gets from JNOS are: ****
>
>  To: joe at ham.org, Cc: n6mef.****
>
> ** **
>
> The problem is that n6mef has no domain attached.  The receiving mail
> gateway, depending on how it strictly it is configured may even reject the
> message because the recipients are not fully qualified.  Or the message may
> be dropped by the destination mail server at ham.org.  Or the destination
> mail server may add it’s own domain, resulting in n6mef at ham.org.  This is
> what happens at yahoo and other places.  Now, if someone tries to reply
> all, they end up with bounces because n6mef at ham.org doesn’t exist.****
>
> ** **
>
> From my understanding of the SMTP standards, only fully qualified
> addresses should be passed between mail systems.  In other words, the JNOS
> system should add its local hostname.domain to the local part (n6mef)
> before sending it along, so that the message is sent as:  To: Joe at ham.com,
> CC: n6mef at bbscall.ampr.org  (or whatever).****
>
> ** **
>
> Is there maybe a configuration option I’m missing that would tell JNOS to
> add it’s hostname to non-fqdn addresses?****
>
> ** **
>
> Thanks,****
>
> Michael****
>
> N6MEF****
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> _______________________________________________
> nos-bbs mailing list
> nos-bbs at tapr.org
> http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/nos-bbs
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.tapr.org/pipermail/nos-bbs_lists.tapr.org/attachments/20130321/b02ba01a/attachment.html>


More information about the nos-bbs mailing list