[drats_users] D-RATS 0.3.2b5

[Dan Smith]

> I quickly tested checking Winlink email and it works great.

Excellent.

> I believe the way SSIDs work, -1 to -9 are extensions of the primary
> call.  If you are using Paclink, one of the client programs, and you
> set up an email address using your call and an SSID, you have to use
> the same password as the main email address which is your call.  So
> the first thing you have to set up is your call then you set up any
> other ones with an SSID.  Every email address gets authorized to use
> Winlink by just sending an email through the Winlink system.  The -10
> SSID is usually set aside for RMS Packet Gateways.  So when you see a
> call with a -10 you will know that you can connect to the station to
> send or receive mail.

Okay, but does that mean that if someone sends to KK7DS-1 at winlink.org
and I am checking KK7DS-2 at winlink.org, I won't see their message?

I guess I can solve this by just adding a "Winlink SSID" field to the
preferences that will let you set what gets appended to your callsign
for the WL2K check.

> What I did was change the D-Rats userid to NY3J-1 that allowed me to
> check the winlink mail from NY3J.  This was using simplex.  I'm not
> that familiar with the D-Star system but in order to use gateways or
> even repeater with an SSID you may have to register that with the
> server.

The radios, repeaters, and gateways in the D-STAR system have no
knowledge of what you callsign is set to in D-RATS.  You can use a
callsign of NY3J in your radio and a callsign of KK7DS in D-RATS and
nothing will know (or care).

In your example, did you initiate the check from NY3J?  If so, then it
was querying the Winlink servers for NY3J, which I expect is the most
common case.

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Dan Smith
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