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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Never mind. I just tried with Maiko’s system and it works fine. That is, I can telnet to Maiko’s machine, log in, send myself a message at my machine, and it works. I can log into my machine, send a message to myself at Maiko’s machine, then telnet to Maiko’s machine and it’s there. Boom.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Must be a problem on the other end for that one other station.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>m.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> nos-bbs-bounces@tapr.org [mailto:nos-bbs-bounces@tapr.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Michael Fox - N6MEF<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 09, 2011 10:04 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'TAPR xNOS Mailing List'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [nos-bbs] smtp gateway command<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:#1F497D'>But that’s not the behavior I’m seeing. See below. I can ping and telnet and whatever to the non-domain.txt hosts but mail doesn’t go out to them…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:#1F497D'>m<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> nos-bbs-bounces@tapr.org [mailto:nos-bbs-bounces@tapr.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Bob Tenty<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 09, 2011 8:20 PM<br><b>To:</b> TAPR xNOS Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [nos-bbs] smtp gateway command<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'>Translation:<br>If it can't find the records by whatever means, mail will be sent to the the smtp gateway.<br>(if defined in the autoexec.nos)<br><br>Bob VE3TOK<br><br>On 11-03-09 05:11 PM, Michael Fox - N6MEF wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Can someone clarify the usage of the smtp gateway command?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#1F497D'>The documentation says: “Any mail sent to a host not in the domain.txt file or not found via a nameserver query, will instead be sent to the gateway for forwarding (if #define’d).”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#1F497D'>For an OR statement to be true, only one of the inputs need to be true. So if mail is destined for a host which is NOT in domain.txt, then an smtp gateway is required, EVEN IF the host IS found via a nameserver query. Correct?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#1F497D'>If so, that would match the condition I’m seeing. I don’t currently have an smtp gateway configured. Messages to hosts in my domain.txt file go out, but messages to hosts which are not in my domain.txt file sit in the smtp queue and don’t go out, even though those hosts are listed in DNS. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#1F497D'>If this is all true, then it seems like the second condition is meaningless and should be removed from the text. In other words, if the destination host is not in domain.txt then the mail will be sent to the gateway for forwarding. If a gateway is not defined, then the messages will remain in the queue. Am I reading this wrong?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Michael</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#1F497D'>N6MEF</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><pre style='margin-left:1.0in'><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre style='margin-left:1.0in'>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='margin-left:1.0in'>nos-bbs mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='margin-left:1.0in'><a href="mailto:nos-bbs@tapr.org">nos-bbs@tapr.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='margin-left:1.0in'><a href="https://www.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nos-bbs">https://www.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nos-bbs</a><o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>