[nos-bbs] BBS FROM Address - BPQBBS

Tue Sep 21 19:16:02 UTC 2010

An FYI on some BBS messaging handling details.    It's interesting to
see the old spec and protocol still being worked on and with.

73
Bill - WA7NWP

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: John Wiseman <
Date: Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:32 AM
Subject: [BPQ32] Corrupt FROM Address - was WP Error
To: BPQ32 at yahoogroups.com

To summarise my discussions with Hank (see below for the full details)

Messages are being created on BPQMAILCHAT which have an @ character
appended to the FROM call.

These seem to be from messages received via plain text forwarding,
with a command of the form

SB WP at WW < N7XXX at N7XXX.OR.USA.NOAM $XXXXXXXX

Although this does not conform to the published BBS spec
(http://www.w0rli.net/w0rli/bbs_spec.html), it is in accordance with
an AA4RE extension, which allows  fully qualified addresses for To and
From, of which I was not aware.

This isn't a new problem with BPQMailChat - it has never handled
qualified FROM addresses.

I am working on a modification which will handle these correctly, and
remove any @ characters from the FROM field of existing messages.

73,
John

-----Original Message-----
From: BPQ32 at yahoogroups.com [mailto:BPQ32 at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Mike Melnik
Sent: 21 September 2010 19:14
To: BPQ32 at yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [BPQ32] WP Error
Importance: High

Sorry about that K.O too many connects on monitor screen, I missed the
connected station
The error messages are from Peter 9Y4PJ BPQMailChat version 1.0.4.8 I also
was not able
To find N7QDN, I received your messages prior to Peter sending them, N0KFQ
messages are
Fine, Note Peter is running an earlier version of BPQBBS, I thought this
problem was with
The recent release.

Mike Melnik-N9PMO
Web WWW.N9PMO.com
NNTP Server N9PMO.DYNDNS.ORG Port 119
Scanned by Symantec Corporate A/V
-----Original Message-----
From: BPQ32 at yahoogroups.com [mailto:BPQ32 at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of K.O.
Higgs
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 10:57 AM
To: BPQ32 at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [BPQ32] WP Error

I run FBB 7.00i, not FBB 7.01.
Also, I cannot find "n7qdn" nor "n7qdn@" anywhere in my FBB bbs...
Neither can I find "n7qdn" nor "n7qdn@" anywhere in my BPQ bbs..
All messages to and from my BPQMailChat pass thru my FBB.
My BPQMailChat does not forward to/from anyplace but N0KFQ bbs.

K.O. N0KFQ

On 9/21/2010 10:24 AM, Mike Melnik wrote:

Here is what I see from K.O'S 7.01A to my FBB 7.00I

[PORT 1 (BPQ) - 6 - BBS-0]
FA B N0KFQ@ WW TODAY 16762_N0KFQ 2387
Error in field (N0KFQ@)
FA B N7QDN@ WW WP 8CC7N7QDN 393
Error in field (N7QDN@)
F> 73
FS ==
FF
FQ

What I don't know is if these messages first came from his BPQMailChat then
to his 7.01A

Mike Melnik-N9PMO
Web WWW.N9PMO.com
NNTP Server N9PMO.DYNDNS.ORG Port 119
Scanned by Symantec Corporate A/V
-----Original Message-----
From: BPQ32 at yahoogroups.com [mailto:BPQ32 at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John
Wiseman
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 9:06 AM
To: BPQ32 at yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [BPQ32] WP Error

Ok, Thanks.

I'll update the code to handle it.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: BPQ32 at yahoogroups.com [mailto:BPQ32 at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Hank
Oredson
Sent: 21 September 2010 14:34
To: BPQ32 at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [BPQ32] WP Error

What happened was that the S in the SID was never used,
but parsing of the full address was. We need an updated spec ;-)

----- Original Message -----
From: John Wiseman
To: BPQ32 at yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 12:54 AM
Subject: RE: [BPQ32] WP Error

Ok, I can add that.

But if I don't have 'S' in my SID, shouldn't the other end not use that
feature?

John

-----Original Message-----
From: BPQ32 at yahoogroups.com [mailto:BPQ32 at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Hank
Oredson
Sent: 20 September 2010 22:21
To: BPQ32 at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [BPQ32] WP Error

It is the AA4RE extension, feature letter 'S'.
Allows fully qualified addresses for To and From.
Details never made it into the spec.

----- Original Message -----
From: John Wiseman
To: BPQ32 at yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 1:36 PM
Subject: RE: [BPQ32] WP Error

Ok, Hank.

But my reading of the BBS Specification is that FROM  is a callsign. But I
agree I should either reject it, or process it reasonably.

TO
CALLSIGN [WHITE "@" WHITE BBS]
FROM
CALLSIGN

73,
John

 -----Original Message-----
From: BPQ32 at yahoogroups.com [mailto:BPQ32 at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Hank
Oredson
Sent: 20 September 2010 21:20
To: BPQ32 at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [BPQ32] WP Error

I would guess plain text forwarding.
The command that would have be sent to BPQBBS:

SB WP at WW < N7QDN at N7QDN.OR.USA.NOAM $8C7EN7QDN

----- Original Message -----
From: John Wiseman
To: BPQ32 at yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 12:26 PM
Subject: RE: [BPQ32] WP Error

K.O.

Where did these messages come from? And do you have the log_bbs for when
they arrived? I'm pretty sure the @ isn;t being added during forwarding.
Does it appear if you display the headers in Manage Messages?

John

-----Original Message-----
From: BPQ32 at yahoogroups.com [mailto:BPQ32 at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of K.O.

Higgs
Sent: 20 September 2010 16:40
To: BPQ32 at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [BPQ32] WP Error

I am seeing a protocol error when forwarding FROM bpqmail bbs's only. I am
using FBB 7.00i.
I have now seen this error from three different bpq bbs's.

73, K.O. N0KFQ

[PORT 1 (BPQ32) - 1 - N8MDT-0]
[FBB-7.00i-AB1FHMR$]
N0KFQ BBS, Branson Missouri USA
(1) N0KFQ BBS>
[BPQ-1.0.4.15-B1FH$]
FA B N7GLS@ WW WP CE2N7GLS 410
Error in field (N7GLS@)
FA B N7QDN@ WW WP 8C7EN7QDN 444
Error in field (N7QDN@)
FA B N0JAL@ WW WP 6C4FN0JAL 401
Error in field (N0JAL@)
FA B JI1FGA WW PIC 1544_JI1FGA 6875
FA B JI1FGA WW PIC 1545_JI1FGA 6877
F> 2C
FS EEERR
FF
*** Protocol Error - Invalid Proposal Respo

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K.O. Higgs
n0kfq at centurytel.net

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K.O. Higgs
n0kfq at centurytel.net

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