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    From Paul Hayton@3:770/100 to All on Thursday, September 10, 2015 20:23:53
    It's late and I'm tired as I write this.

    If I want to send all netmail addressed to my hub address 3:770/1 on to my BBS 3:770/100 instead how best to do so?

    Am I best to use a ROUTE-TO statement

    So ROUTE-TO 3:770/100 3:770/1

    Correct?

    Having brain fade at this hour... :(

    Best, Paul

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  • From Paul Quinn@3:640/1384 to Paul Hayton on Thursday, September 10, 2015 19:47:31
    Hi! Paul,

    On 10/09/2015 8:23 PM, you wrote:

    It's late and I'm tired as I write this.

    If I want to send all netmail addressed to my hub address 3:770/1 on to
    my BBS 3:770/100 instead how best to do so?

    Am I best to use a ROUTE-TO statement
    So ROUTE-TO 3:770/100 3:770/1

    Correct?

    Having brain fade at this hour... :(

    That looks good. It's saying that anything for ~770/1 will be routed to ~770/100.

    Cheers,
    Paul.

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Paul Hayton on Thursday, September 10, 2015 10:06:36

    10 Sep 15 20:23, you wrote to All:

    If I want to send all netmail addressed to my hub address 3:770/1 on
    to my BBS 3:770/100 instead how best to do so?

    Am I best to use a ROUTE-TO statement

    So ROUTE-TO 3:770/100 3:770/1

    Correct?

    yes but you'll still have that netmail containing the original /1 destination address... on the /1 machine, you would need a ""forwarder"" which either forwards the mail as a new message to your /100 OR the forwarder changes the destination address of /1 to that of /100 so that it will be sent from /1 to /100 where you really want it...

    )\/(ark

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Paul Hayton on Sunday, September 13, 2015 15:08:48

    12 Sep 15 09:42, you wrote to me:

    route-to is only for routing in-transit netmail... you need something
    like netmgr to rewrite the destination like might be done if you were
    on vacation and wanted your mail re-addressed to your point that you
    have on your laptop with you...

    Is this windows based software Mark?

    netmgr? no... it is DOS based from around 1995 IIRC... also has a native OS/2 flavor...

    forward-to and forward-for are also for in-transit netmail, IIRC...
    you use them to determine which systems you will forward mail
    to/for...

    Yep knew that but had hoped I could use it to my advantage.

    yeah... just like frondoor, they're only good for routing in-transit mail..

    true... and the docs are also very helpful... pages 119-121 should
    have the detailed information you seek ;)

    Yeah I had looked over them a lot but the info has not gelled and my
    level of experience in intermediate to advanced FTN netmail is not
    that great. But hey, I'm keen to learn and slowly grow that base level
    of understanding. :)

    you're doing quite well :)

    )\/(ark

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