On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 17:39:40 -0400, mark lewis wrote:   
      
    ml> on the email thing... peter submitted a change back in Nov 2009 to fix   
    ml> the email address to be more like the standard email template... i was   
    ml> just looking over that code yesterday...   
      
    ml> Make from addresses into valid RFC 5322 addresses   
      
   The real intent of the e-mail field on the from line is to enable   
   reply-to e-mail function in news client.  From a fidonet perspective,   
   since it is impossible to derive a valid e-mail address from majority   
   of posts I saw no reason to keep that - especially for echomail areas.   
   So for the time being, what I use here simply omits that unless it   
   finds the REPLYADDR kludge inserted by another jamnntpd server.   
      
   Makes me think: whatever happened to the fidonet.org e-mail gateways?   
      
   For netmail areas, I simply use zone.net.node.point... so if you send   
   me netmail it will show as 'mark lewis - matt bedynek <1.3634.12.73>.   
    ml> what i do not see in relation to this is if or how jamnntpd converts   
    ml> back to a valid fidonet address when a post is made... one should be   
    ml> able to crosspost a private response to the NETMAIL area and that should   
    ml> be converted to a proper private netmail on the FTN side... there is   
    ml> something where jamnntpd does place a To: name based on the "fromname ->   
    ml> toname" of the original post when a reply is made... i'm suspecting that   
    ml> something similar with the above address format should also be done...   
      
   For netmail, you must enter a "to: name, addr" in the message body.  I   
   know this works but have not investigated further to determine cross   
   posting capabilities.   
      
   One of the biggest problems I have seen so far is the differences how   
   most clients work.   I found a bug that forte's agent would crash the   
   jamnntpd server sometimes whereas thunderbird would not.  So specific   
   feature sets may be difficult to perfect.   
      
   matt   
      
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    * Origin: The Byte Museum - news: news.bytemuseum.org (1:19/10)