Hello all,

I've been playing with mailgw-0.3.1 for a while now, but I can't find a
suitable way to gateway BBS personal messages to e-mail adresses. The
problem is as follows:

First, I was trying to extract the email destination address from the BBS
destination address, but I never got XFBB that far in accepting "callsigns"
longer than 6 characters, so addresses such as:

<user>%<host>@<somebbs>.<route>

were denied by XFBB. After that, I made an ugly shell script that extracts
an e-mail address from the message data and changed the BBS destination
address to the specified e-mail address. This was a far from beautiful
solution and gave me an extra problem: The rewriting in the pbbs-dst.map
doesn't allow the first token to be longer than six characters e.g.:

when rewriting an address such as [EMAIL PROTECTED]  and using
the simple rewrite rule:

$*@$* $1@$2 

left me with the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As you see the "user" part was stripped to 6 chars max.

Then I found out (from the source of pbbs_rcv) that mailgw was also able to
extract the e-mail dest. address from a specified T:-Line. But, whatever I
try, I can't get pbbs_rcv to accept my format of the XFBB forward output
files, even not with manual editting.

I _once_ got it working with the following format:

/usr/local/xfbb/mailgw.out :

SP EMAIL@<BBS-ROUTE> etc. etc.
<subject>
<R:-Line>
<T:-Line>
<empty line>
<First line of message data>

When there was an empty line between the subject and the R:-Line,  the
R:-Line was not read at all, but pbbs_rcv gave no warning not finding the
R:-Line. But now the T:-Line is never found again by pbbs_rcv and since
there is no entry anymore in the pbbs-dst.map I just get the error message:
"No dest. mapping".

I'm not a C programmer so it's really hard for me to understand how
pbbs_rcv expects the format of the XFBB forward output file when I'm trying
to specify the destination e-mail address a T:-Line, such as:

T:To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Can anybody tell me what I'm doing terribly wrong here?
Current software versions are mailgw-0.3.1 and XFBB 7.00g21.
Thank's very much in advance.

Kind regards,
Michel Otte.

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