[Xastir-dev] message bugs?

[John Williams]

Just be aware that they are other aprs email servers out there.

Someone has written another ui-view plug in and the aprs email server in Australia
replies as VKMAIL. This is also how you address the message.  So it does get acknowledged 
correctly.

I believe the different email servers use different calls to avoid conflicts.
These servers should really respond in a way aprs clients expect.

There is only one server that uses EMAIL that I am aware of, so your special case should not 
cause problems with the other servers. Hard coding a special case is not an ideal solution though.

You could implement a retry count for messages. Perhaps configurable up to 10 attempts.
Otherwise just let the user decide when to cancel the message.

Regards

John
VK5ZTY 

On 25 Jan 2005 at 18:21, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Chris Bell wrote:
> 
> > 2. When using the EMAIL service, the ack and the OK message come from
> > WU2Z, and not from "EMAIL", so we never clear the outgoing message.
> > [This has been a problem forever.]  Fortunately, we now have the
> > cancel button so we can kill it.  Should we match up the ack with the
> > counter we sent out, ignoring the to/from calls, and not care that we
> > might be getting spoofed [intentionally or otherwise] ?  I would hate
> > to add a special case that "EMAIL" ignores the returning from
> > call... but otherwise we never stop txing.
> 
> I thought about adding a button that would allow looser matches, but
> then we could end up getting an ack from one of our QSO's that
> matched a different QSO, if the sequence-ID just happened to match.
> That'd get very strange in a hurry.
> 
> How about this:
> 
> If we're sending to EMAIL only, match on "EMAIL plus ACK" or "WU2Z
> plus ACK".  I kind of hate to put in a specific callsign for the
> EMAIL match, but I can't think of a better way to do it.
> 
> Comments?



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