I don't know if this the place to ask, but I have a
Mystic BBS that I am trying to use for Dove-Net
messaging. It seems to be working but after trying
to exchange e-mail, I get a "unable to open data
connection" error message.

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong. I will
go through the setup procedure one more time
and see if I can get this sorted out. Any help
would be greatly appreciated.

-=Alonzo=-
Bunker 3 BBS - woofer.v6.rocks:8888
Mt. Healthy, Ohio
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Re: Dove-Net problems
By: Alonzo to All on Tue Jul 29 2025 12:19 pm

I don't know if this the place to ask, but I have a
Mystic BBS that I am trying to use for Dove-Net
messaging. It seems to be working but after trying
to exchange e-mail, I get a "unable to open data
connection" error message.

Is that for the FTP file transfer? If you have the option, maybe try passive FTP instead of active/normal FTP (or vice versa) - if that's an FTP error (I can't tell).
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digital man (rob)

Sling Blade quote #3:
Karl (re: killing Doyle): That second one just plum near cut his head in two. Norco, CA WX: 83.8øF, 47.0% humidity, 5 mph W wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs
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Re: Dove-Net problems
By: Digital Man to Alonzo on Tue Jul 29 2025 01:17 pm

Re: Dove-Net problems
By: Alonzo to All on Tue Jul 29 2025 12:19 pm

I don't know if this the place to ask, but I have a
Mystic BBS that I am trying to use for Dove-Net
messaging. It seems to be working but after trying
to exchange e-mail, I get a "unable to open data
connection" error message.

Is that for the FTP file transfer? If you have the option, maybe try passive FTP instead of active/normal FTP (or vice versa) - if that's an FTP error (I can't tell).

No, this was for messages. I think I already have FTP set too passive
but now I am getting an error that says there is no BUNKER3 file. Here
is what I get:

------------------------------------------------------------
Sending reply packet: BUNKER3.rep
Unable to open data connection
Downloading QWK packet
Packet does not exist on remote: BUNKER3.qwk
Response: 550 File not found: BUNKER3.qwk
Send of REP failed; reseting export pointers ----------------------------------------------------------
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Re: Dove-Net problems
By: Alonzo to Digital Man on Wed Jul 30 2025 07:28 am

Re: Dove-Net problems
By: Digital Man to Alonzo on Tue Jul 29 2025 01:17 pm

Re: Dove-Net problems
By: Alonzo to All on Tue Jul 29 2025 12:19 pm

I don't know if this the place to ask, but I have a
Mystic BBS that I am trying to use for Dove-Net
messaging. It seems to be working but after trying
to exchange e-mail, I get a "unable to open data
connection" error message.

Is that for the FTP file transfer? If you have the option, maybe try passive FTP instead of active/normal FTP (or vice versa) - if that's an FTP error (I can't tell).

No, this was for messages. I think I already have FTP set too passive
but now I am getting an error that says there is no BUNKER3 file. Here
is what I get:

------------------------------------------------------------
Sending reply packet: BUNKER3.rep
Unable to open data connection
Downloading QWK packet
Packet does not exist on remote: BUNKER3.qwk
Response: 550 File not found: BUNKER3.qwk
Send of REP failed; reseting export pointers ----------------------------------------------------------

If VERT is your DOVE-Net hub, then those files should be VERT.rep and VERT.qwk, respectively. So it looks like you got something misconfigured. I don't know about the "Unable to open data connection" error, but it sounds like it's FTP-related.
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digital man (rob)

Steven Wright quote #25:
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
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