https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/641747f6f33586b2d27f3b6a
Modified Files:
src/sbbs3/netmail.cpp scfglib.h scfglib1.c
Log Message:
Use nearest-zone matching for source FTN address when replying to netmail

Rather than only matching exact zone numbers as a final "nearest" address search, use a "nearest zone" matching algorithm ("nearest" being the most mathematically near). This way, replying to netmail from a zone 2 address
would always match a zone 1 source address, regardless of how many othernet addresses are configured and which order they are configured in SCFG.

Fixes issue #447 reported by Charles Blackburn (FBOBBS)
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Hi Rob,

On 2022-10-10 15:18:19, you wrote to Git commit to main/sbbs/master:

Use nearest-zone matching for source FTN address when replying to netmailRather than only matching exact zone numbers as a final
"nearest" addresssearch, use a "nearest zone" matching algorithm ("nearest" being the mostmathematically near). This way, replying to netmail from a zone 2 addresswould always match a zone 1 source
address, regardless of how many othernetaddresses are configured and
which order they are configured in SCFG

Today you probably get away with this algorithm. But that is a matter of luck, not of how the algorithm works.

In the past when Fidonet had 6 zones and for instance you had a node number in Zone 1 and in an othernet Zone 8, and replied to someone in Zone 5 or 6, you would have replied from your Zone 8 othernet address... :-(

So if someone decides to create an othernet Zone 5 or 6, which is a bad idea, but they could, because the numbers are no longer used, your nearest-zone matching would cause netmail issues...

Bye, Wilfred.

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Re: Re: src/sbbs3/netmail.cpp scfglib.h scfglib1.c
By: Wilfred van Velzen to Rob Swindell on Tue Oct 11 2022 09:13 am

So if someone decides to create an othernet Zone 5 or 6, which is a bad idea, but they could, because the numbers are no longer used, your nearest-zone matching would cause netmail issues...

It's just a default address selection algo. The user can always choose a different/more-correct source address, if the system has one.
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Hi Digital,

On 2022-10-11 10:33:01, you wrote to me:

So if someone decides to create an othernet Zone 5 or 6, which is a bad
idea, but they could, because the numbers are no longer used, your
nearest-zone matching would cause netmail issues...

It's just a default address selection algo. The user can always choose a different/more-correct source address, if the system has one.

Ok, didn't understand that... ;)

Bye, Wilfred.

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