[Xastir-dev] Help testing messaging

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 18 May 2005, Tom Russo wrote:

> On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:19:34AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> >
> >
> > Format for AE5PL-EM is just "AE5PL-EM" as the destination, an e-mail
> > address as the first part of the message body, a space, and then the
> > messsage to send to the e-mail address.  Similar to the "EMAIL"
> > server some of you probably have tried, although I think there are
> > additional functions this new one can perform.  A successful test
> > will be ack's getting recognized and the e-mail getting received at
> > the remote e-mail address.
>
>  0:TX -> KM5VY>APX151,WIDE3-3::AE5PL-EM :russo at bogodyn.org Testing.{AD}
>
> Never saw an ACK, so xastir kept retrying, but did get the email, and:
>
>  0:TNC-> W5MPZ-1>APS221,WIDE3-1:}W5M   :Email sent to russo at bogodyn.org{00
>  0:TNC-> W5MPZ-1>APS221,WIDE3:}W5M   :Email sent to russo at bogodyn.org{00

You didn't see an ack to your original message, or just didn't see
it for a couple of minutes?

What's with the messed up callsign "W5M" in the igated packets back
to you?  Is that perhaps a typo when you were copying the text?


> After about two minutes the ack got through:
>
> 0:TNC-> W5MPZ-1>APS221,WIDE3-2:}AE5PL-EM>APJSEM,TCPIP,W5MPZ-1*::KM5VY    :ackAD}
>
> and Xastir stopped retrying.

Ok, that's an ack to your original message.  That's good.

So... Other than the apparent weird igating format to RF done by
W5MPZ-1, everything appears to be functioning properly, right?

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