<html><head><meta name="color-scheme" content="light dark"></head><body><div style="font-size:13;color:light-dark(rgb(0,0,0), rgb(255,255,255));align:natural;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><div sc-note="">I have managed to get Winlink to challenge-response authentication working. through some combination of an all uppercase password with no duplicate letters and increasing the timeouts in my forward.bbs script. This got me far enough to see the next barrier, which is that the Winlink CMS is not accepting my sender address.- see transcript below. </div><div><br></div><div>This has got to be some dumb config error. Any suggestions on where to look?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Dave Lounsbury</div><div>KC1UIX</div><div><br></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family: JetBrainsMonoNerdFontCompleteM-Regular,'JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono',Courier,monospace; font-size: 10px">17:21:59 54.147.59.143:8772 - MBOX (WL2K) connected</span><br></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family: JetBrainsMonoNerdFontCompleteM-Regular,'JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono',Courier,monospace; font-size: 10px">17:22:00 KY2D-4 @ KY2D-4 - MBOX (KY2D) connected</span><br></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family: JetBrainsMonoNerdFontCompleteM-Regular,'JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono',Courier,monospace; font-size: 10px">17:22:00 54.147.59.143:8772 - [KC1UIX] requesting secure login [33961445] PQchallenge</span><br></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family: JetBrainsMonoNerdFontCompleteM-Regular,'JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono',Courier,monospace; font-size: 10px">17:22:00 54.147.59.143:8772 - [61924775] challenge response</span><br></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family: JetBrainsMonoNerdFontCompleteM-Regular,'JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono',Courier,monospace; font-size: 10px">17:22:00 54.147.59.143:8772 - MBOX (WL2K) forwarding</span><br></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family: JetBrainsMonoNerdFontCompleteM-Regular,'JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono',Courier,monospace; font-size: 10px">17:22:00 54.147.59.143:8772 - MBOX (WL2K) proposal FC EM 1CLV_KC1UIX 276 216 0</span><br></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family: JetBrainsMonoNerdFontCompleteM-Regular,'JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono',Courier,monospace; font-size: 10px">17:22:00 54.147.59.143:8772 - MBOX (WL2K) proposal FC EM 1CLY_KC1UIX 382 295 0</span><br></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family: JetBrainsMonoNerdFontCompleteM-Regular,'JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono',Courier,monospace; font-size: 10px">17:22:00 54.147.59.143:8772 - MBOX (WL2K) proposal FC EM 1CM2_KC1UIX 119 117 0</span><br></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family: JetBrainsMonoNerdFontCompleteM-Regular,'JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono',Courier,monospace; font-size: 10px">17:22:00 54.147.59.143:8772 - MBOX (WL2K) proposal FC EM 1CM5_KC1UIX 308 234 0</span><br></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family: JetBrainsMonoNerdFontCompleteM-Regular,'JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono',Courier,monospace; font-size: 10px">17:22:00 54.147.59.143:8772 - MBOX (WL2K) got response FS YYYY</span><br></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family: JetBrainsMonoNerdFontCompleteM-Regular,'JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono',Courier,monospace; font-size: 10px">17:22:00 54.147.59.143:8772 - MBOX (WL2K) lzhuf compress 210/276 = 23 percent</span><br></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family: JetBrainsMonoNerdFontCompleteM-Regular,'JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono',Courier,monospace; font-size: 10px">17:22:00 54.147.59.143:8772 - MBOX (WL2K) lzhuf compress 289/382 = 24 percent</span><br></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family: JetBrainsMonoNerdFontCompleteM-Regular,'JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono',Courier,monospace; font-size: 10px">17:22:00 54.147.59.143:8772 - MBOX (WL2K) lzhuf compress 111/119 = 6 percent</span><br></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family: JetBrainsMonoNerdFontCompleteM-Regular,'JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono',Courier,monospace; font-size: 10px">17:22:00 54.147.59.143:8772 - MBOX (WL2K) lzhuf compress 228/308 = 25 percent</span><br></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family: JetBrainsMonoNerdFontCompleteM-Regular,'JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono',Courier,monospace; font-size: 10px">17:22:00 54.147.59.143:8772 - MBOX (WL2K) FBB error *** Unknown message sender: [Dave <kc1uix] - Disconnecting (64.135.129.142)</span><br></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family: JetBrainsMonoNerdFontCompleteM-Regular,'JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono',Courier,monospace; font-size: 10px">17:22:00 54.147.59.143:8772 - MBOX (WL2K) fwd exit</span><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="sc-reply-separator"><div style="color: #999;"><strong>On <span>Apr 7, 2026 at 10:13:52\u202fAM</span>, <span>David Lounsbury</span> wrote:</strong><br></div><blockquote><div id="original-content"><span><div id="" class="mvn-added-padding" style="overflow: visible auto;"><div style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;align:natural;color:light-dark(rgb(0,0,0), rgb(255,255,255));font-size:13"><div sc-note="">Thanks, Maiko. I edited the extra period out, but unfortunately the results are the same: "Secure login failed - account password does not match."</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></span></div></blockquote></div></body></html>