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    From Nick Boel@1:154/10 to Joacim Melin on Tue Oct 14 07:28:22 2025
    Hey Joacim!

    On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 14:05:46 , you wrote:

    So I figured it out, and it's properly silly on my part.

    I figured it out. I think.

    In Binkd I named the other networks Amiganet, Fsxnet, and so on. But
    the paths the outgoing stuff was written to was set to /fido/amiganet, /fido/fsxnet and so on.

    Naturally, Binkd was looking in /fido/Fsxnet.xxx and /fido/Amiganet.xxx.

    That's because your binkd config file specifies to look in those directories. When using your default zone "2" for every network, it will automatically create the hex extensions on your directories. When using this method (4D addressing), it is better to use one outbound directory, ie:

    domain fidonet /fido/outbound 2
    domain fsxnet /fido/outbound 2
    domain othernet /fido/outbound 2

    This will use 'outbound' as your fidonet outbound (default), outbound.015 for fsxnet, etc.

    If Crashmail is properly using /fido/Amiganet, /fido/Fsxnet and so on /without/ the hex extensions, your binkd config may be better off using this as an example, where you put the actual zone number of the network instead of your default zone (2). This is proper 5D addressing, whereas you seem to be trying to use a mixture of 4D and 5D configurations and hoping for the best at the moment:

    domain fidonet /fido/outbound 2
    domain fsxnet /fido/fsxnet 21

    .. and the same for every other network you have, with their proper zone number. This (I believe) disables the hex extensions and allows you to use directory names without them.

    This method only works with Crashmail and a few other tossers that support multiple outbound directories. Aside from that, I'm not sure where you've specified directories with uppercase letters (maybe further into your Crashmail config that you didn't post?) but you will have to deal with that separately.

    Now I'm taking a backup of all configuration files...

    If it's currently working, back them up. Then maybe look into the difference between 4D and 5D addressing so that you understand better. From what I can tell, your configuration may currently be working, but it is still not correct.

    Hope that helps.

    Regards,
    Nick

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