Linux-Hams archive - January 1998: mailgw and xfbbd

mailgw and xfbbd

Dave Stewart (enpfhkf@diodecom.net)
Thu, 01 Jan 1998 13:52:31 -0500


I managed, with very little difficulty, to get mailgw forwarding smtp mail
to xfbb. It seems to work fine with uwnn@csupomona.edu

One strangeness - if it's to a local user, it would be better if the
routing (@KE4UWL.#MVL.GA.USA.NA) were dropped, so that xfbb will beacon the
user's callsign when they have mail waiting.

The biggest problem, though, is that xfbbd won't write to
/usr/local/fbb/mailgw.out

Basically, I guess it means I don't know how to address outbound mail - if
I do:

sp dbs@gw

That gets forwarded to mailgw (see forward.sys below). However, mailgw.out
is never created, and there are no error messages in the logs. If I create
the file, it remains 0 bytes. Permissions are such that it's world
writeable (which I'll fix once I get it working).

Here's the forward.sys file:

A MAILGW

# These HROUTEs for personal messages....
H MAILGW.KE4UWL.#MVL.GA.US
H GW

B MAILGW

P @
C /usr/local/fbb/mailgw.out

---------
A KR4OL
IF H=0-6,23
P A
C C MCNBBS
F KR4OL
!B SYSOP
!B ALLOH
!B MAILGW
!B GW
B *
!G SYSOP
!G ALLOH
!G MAILGW
!G GW
G *
R
END IF
------

As I say... I can't figger it out!