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    From MissChief@1:153/147 to All on Tuesday, August 30, 2022 14:46:27
    I was testing sending myself an email based on the info here: https://kb.iu.edu/d/aavj
    but it doesn't seem to work. Is there a new way to send email to our
    netmail addresses? Or is that feature gone?

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  • From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to Misschief on Tuesday, August 30, 2022 20:13:29
    On 30 Aug 22 14:46:27, Misschief said the following to All:

    I was testing sending myself an email based on the info here: https://kb.iu.edu/d/aavj
    but it doesn't seem to work. Is there a new way to send email to our
    netmail addresses? Or is that feature gone?

    Its largely gone and unreliable. Spammers and stupidity killed it.

    Nick

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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to MissChief on Tuesday, August 30, 2022 17:44:50
    I was testing sending myself an email based on the info here: https://kb.iu.edu/d/aavj

    That was a thing at one time but I don't know if anyone is running an email <-> fidonet gateway today.

    but it doesn't seem to work. Is there a new way to send email to our
    netmail addresses? Or is that feature gone?

    I don't remember now who it was that was running the gateway but I suspect it was shut down. email is not the draw for fido nodes it once was.

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  • From MissChief@1:153/147 to All on Tuesday, August 30, 2022 18:12:25
    I was testing sending myself an email based on the info here: https://kb.iu.edu/d/aavj
    but it doesn't seem to work. Is there a new way to send email to our netmail addresses? Or is that feature gone?

    Ok honestly it's good that it's gone (as others have mentioned). I prefer netmail over email anyway just because of the spam. On my gopher sites I have my netmail contact info listed rather than my email.

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  • From Rob Swindell to MissChief on Wednesday, August 31, 2022 21:38:14
    Re: Email to Fidonet
    By: MissChief to All on Tue Aug 30 2022 02:46 pm

    I was testing sending myself an email based on the info here: https://kb.iu.edu/d/aavj
    but it doesn't seem to work. Is there a new way to send email to our
    netmail addresses? Or is that feature gone?

    Yeah, pretty much. You can try replacing fidonet.org with binkp.net (e.g. f705.n103.z1.binkp.net), but that's only going to work if that FidoNet node also happens to be running an SMTP server (on TCP port 25).
    --
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  • From Tommi Koivula@2:221/360 to MissChief on Friday, September 02, 2022 18:25:16

    30 Aug 22 14:46, MissChief wrote to All:

    I was testing sending myself an email based on the info here: https://kb.iu.edu/d/aavj
    but it doesn't seem to work. Is there a new way to send email to our netmail addresses? Or is that feature gone?

    Try .fidonet.fi instead of .fidonet.org. Works for text messages, html crap will be rejected.

    'Tommi

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