[nos-bbs] Winlink mail and JNOS

Brian n1uro at n1uro.ampr.org
Fri Dec 30 17:51:35 EST 2016


This makes sense since the backend is somewhat of a dos/power shell which 
uses upper case as a default.

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On December 30, 2016 5:00:15 PM "Lakenet" <n0mr at lakenet.com> wrote:

> I'm now successfully sending and receiving Winlink mail in JNOS using the
> latest JNOS version and the new secure password. The problem was the secure
> password had to be entered in the JNOS password manager in upper case. I
> could log onto the Winlink web site with both upper and lower case.
>
> Thank you Maiko for the jump start.
>
> Jerry, N0MR
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 'Gustavo Ponza'
> Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2016 3:56 AM
> To: nos-bbs at tapr.org
> Subject: Re: [nos-bbs] Winlink mail and JNOS
>
>
>
> On 12/23/2016 07:43 PM, Brian wrote:
>> Peter;
>>
>> On Wed, 2016-12-21 at 15:19 -0800, Peter McCorison wrote:
>>> The limitation is that you can't send email via Winlink to a
>>> non-winlink address from a regular email client because the "smtp:"
>>> prefix gets quoted and that confuses winlink.
>>
>> The appendage of "smtp:" in an address string I don't believe is part of
>> the SMTP RFC specs. See:
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6531
>>
>> The mail engine of JNOS is smtp based... why is there a need to use
>> Winlink and not migrate users over to JNOS instead or other
>> packet<>email gateway systems? There's plenty of them available.
>
> I would like that, from time to time, all primitive JNOS2 features
> be revamped/improved to the state-of-the-art :)
>
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> 73 and ciao, gus i0ojj
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