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 Message 492 
 Tim Schattkowsky to Tommi Koivula 
 Re: netmail 
 16 Feb 22 16:18:45 
 
MSGID: 2:240/1120.29 34637358
CHRS: UTF-8 4
TZUTC: 0100
REPLY: 2:221/6 620cfaa1
//Hello Tommi,//

on *16.02.2022* at *13:18:54* You wrote in Area *WINPOINT*
to *Tim Schattkowsky* about *"netmail"*.

 TK> I checked the unprocessed .pkt from my backups. Actually there are two
 TK> INTL lines:

Interesting. 

By reproducing the original problem (WP no longer detects invalid receiver
addresses in the editor - fixed now), I also checked the outgoint packet and
there is only the all-zeros INTL included. I would suspect that *some other
software stumbled upon it and inserted an INTL line*, presumably because the
underlying logic is that *old software sometimes does not distinguish between
"no value" and "valie, but all zero"*, so reading all zero might lead such
software to misinterpret this internally as "no INTL found" and feeling like
inserting one based on all known information (default zone and node/net from
message header, which is consistently also all zeroes).

Anyway, WP should now again make sure there is a valid address given before
sending a netmail message. 

 TK> === Cut ===
 TK> PktInfo/lnx 1.9 2022-02-13

 TK> Packet header
 TK> =========================================================================
 TK> =====
 TK> Filename       : 0414ca72.pkt
 TK> OrigAddr       : 2:221/6.256
 TK> DestAddr       : 2:221/6.0
 TK> AuxNet         : 0
 TK> CapWord        : 0x0001
 TK> DateCreation   : Tue 2022-02-15 06:00:41
 TK> Password       : "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
 TK> ProdCode       : 00fe
 TK> ProdVersion    : 0.0

 TK> 7 15:17:37   Mail without INTL-Kludge. Assuming 2:221/6.256 -> 2:0/0.0
 TK> Message header
 TK> -+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
 TK> -----
 TK> From           : "Tommi Koivula"
 TK> To             : "ping"
 TK> Subject        : "ping"
 TK> DateTime       : "15 Feb 22  06:00:29"
 TK> Attr           : 0x0001 -> Private
 TK> OrigAddr       : 221/6
 TK> DestAddr       : 0/0

 TK> Message text
 TK> -+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
 TK> -----
 TK> @INTL 2:0/0 2:221/6
 TK> @INTL 0:0/0 2:221/6
 TK> @FMPT 256
 TK> @MSGID: 2:221/6.256 343d5283
 TK> @CHRS: IBMPC 2
 TK> @TZUTC: 0200
 TK> @PID: WinPoint 398.2
 TK> ping
 TK> === Cut ===

 TK> 'Tommi
 TK> --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20210627
 TK>  * Origin: nntps://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/6)

Regards,
Tim
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