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 Message 1909 
 Rob Swindell to Ghil Zvidgzul 
 Re: Sending email to a fidonet (netmail) 
 23 Dec 21 08:31:06 
 
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  Re: Re: Sending email to a fidonet (netmail) address?
  By: Ghil Zvidgzul to Rob Swindell on Thu Dec 23 2021 07:44 am

 > Hello, Rob!
 >
 >  >> Do you know of any gate used to to send private emails to fidonet
 >  >> adresses?
 >
 >  RS> Most Fido-connected Synchronet systems support SMTP->FTN gating:
 >  RS> @f.n.z.fidonet
 >
 > The question remains: how do I send an email from my gmail address to
 > 1:103/705 ?
 > I tried to send an email to: Rob.Swindell@f705.n103.z2.fidonet.org
 > And got an error from Mail Delivery Subsystem:
 >  "Address not found
 > Your message wasn't delivered to Rob.Swindell@f705.n103.z2.fidonet.org
 > because the domain f705.n103.z2.fidonet.org couldn't be found. Check for
 > typos or unnecessary spaces and try again."

Firstly, you'd have to connect to a Synchronet SMTP server (e.g.
mail.synchro.net) when sending the mail message. Secondly, it's ".fidonet" not
".fidonet.org".

http://wiki.synchro.net/server:mail#special_addresses
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                                            digital man (rob)

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