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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Mike drop me a note at <A
href="mailto:arto@ns.sympatico.ca">arto@ns.sympatico.ca</A> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>and we can go over it if you
like...Art</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=dgspotman@gmail.com href="mailto:dgspotman@gmail.com">Michael
Curry</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=nos-bbs@tapr.org
href="mailto:nos-bbs@tapr.org">nos-bbs@tapr.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 13, 2011 1:34
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [nos-bbs] Minimal local mail
forwarding setup?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Well, gee, the more I look into this, the more confused I get...</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>First of all, regarding the line I tried putting into
domain.txt:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="courier new,monospace">127.0.0.1 IN A k1bbs<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>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" (<A
href="ftp://ftp.tapr.org/projects/n8urbook/n8ur-dr1.pdf">ftp://ftp.tapr.org/projects/n8urbook/n8ur-dr1.pdf</A>),
which was wrong. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>But even after sorting that out, and fixing my domain.txt file to look
like:</DIV>
<DIV>---------</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="courier new,monospace">localhost IN
A 127.0.0.1</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="courier new,monospace">k1bbs IN A 127.0.0.1</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>---------</DIV>
<DIV>... still no joy.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Next, although N8UR strongly advocates putting "localhost" into
domain.txt, other examples out there (such as the one at <A
href="http://mysite.verizon.net/ka1fsb/domain.html">http://mysite.verizon.net/ka1fsb/domain.html</A>)
don't include it. (So was N8UR wrong about that, too?)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Now, since my machine that hosts JNOS does *not* have an address on the
44 net, and isn't part of the <A href="http://ampr.org">ampr.org</A> 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. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>But just to see what would happen, I changed the hostname to "<A
href="http://k1bbs.ampr.org">k1bbs.ampr.org</A>" and added "domain suffix <A
href="http://ampr.org">ampr.org</A>." to my autoexec.nos file, and changed my
domain.txt file to:</DIV>
<DIV>----------</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="courier new,monospace">localhost IN A 127.0.0.1</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="courier new,monospace"><A
href="http://k1bbs.ampr.org">k1bbs.ampr.org</A>. IN A 127.0.0.1</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>----------</DIV>
<DIV>Again, no joy.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>So in a final act of desperation I changed the domain.txt file to:</DIV>
<DIV>----------</DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="courier new,monospace">localhost IN A 127.0.0.1</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="courier new,monospace"><A
href="http://k1bbs.ampr.org">k1bbs.ampr.org</A>. IN A
44.128.10.64</FONT></DIV>----------</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>And now when I kick SMTP, I get:</DIV>
<DIV>---------</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="courier new,monospace">Trying Connection to
44.128.10.64</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="courier new,monospace">SMTP client Trying...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="courier new,monospace">smtp sent: QUIT</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>---------- </DIV>
<DIV>and no change in the contents of spool/mqueue or spool/mail. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>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.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>But I'm just not seeing what I need to do to tell JNOS that k1bbs is
localhost. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Anyone? I'm dyin' here...</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>M</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Michael Curry <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:dgspotman@gmail.com">dgspotman@gmail.com</A>></SPAN>
wrote:<BR>
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<DIV>Hi all,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>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. </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><snip></DIV></DIV>
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