Hi Stephen,

I updated Pygate from 1.5.15 to 1.5.18 and noticed that it was not reading X-Comment-To anymore when doing news->ftn.

My diff:

tommi@mxo:/src/pygate/src$ diff gateway.py /src/pygate-vk3heg/src/gateway.py 806,807d805
< ## TK ADD
< x_comment_to = headers.get('x-comment-to', 'Unknown').strip() 827,829c825
< ## TK CHANGE
< ## 'to_name': area_config.get('default_to', 'All'),
< 'to_name': x_comment_to,
-+-

'to_name': area_config.get('default_to', 'All'),

'Tommi

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* Origin: nntps://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/1)

Hello Tommi!

19 Jul 26 09:55, you wrote to me:

I updated Pygate from 1.5.15 to 1.5.18 and noticed that it was not
reading X-Comment-To anymore when doing news->ftn.

'to_name': area_config.get('default_to', 'All'),

I reverted that change, so messages on the fido side are address to "All".
I didn't like that they had "Unknown".

The Fido/BBS way of messages to everyone having "ALL" looks better.




Stephen


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Hello, Stephen Walsh.
On 21/07/2026 11.54 you wrote:

Hello Tommi!
19 Jul 26 09:55, you wrote to me:

I updated Pygate from 1.5.15 to 1.5.18 and noticed that it was not
reading X-Comment-To anymore when doing news->ftn.

'to_name': area_config.get('default_to', 'All'),

I reverted that change, so messages on the fido side are address to "All". I didn't like that they had "Unknown".
The Fido/BBS way of messages to everyone having "ALL" looks better.

But that was not my point. It is not reading X-Comment-to at all. If it doesnt exist, then the default could be "All".


--
Tommi

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* Origin: RBB PyGate W (2:221/1.20)

Hello Tommi!

21 Jul 26 16:57, you wrote to me:

I reverted that change, so messages on the fido side are address
to "All". I didn't like that they had "Unknown". The Fido/BBS way
of messages to everyone having "ALL" looks better.

But that was not my point. It is not reading X-Comment-to at all. If
it doesnt exist, then the default could be "All".

Been running on my gate for the past 24 hours, and not noticed any issues.
Not seen any message with what the change does though. #-;


### Version 1.5.19 (July 24, 2026)

#### NNTP->FidoNet honours X-Comment-To

src/gateway.py:806-825 - `convert_nntp_to_fido()` now reads the
`X-Comment-To` header from the NNTP article and uses it as the FidoNet `to_name` when non-empty; when missing or blank it falls back to the
prior behaviour of `area_config.get('default_to', 'All')`.

Rationale: v1.5.15 introduced X-Comment-To round-trip on the
FidoNet->NNTP direction only. NNTP->FidoNet was left addressing every
gated article to the area's `default_to` (typically "All"), which lost
the reply-target information that Fidonet-aware newsreaders supply via X-Comment-To. Tommi Koivula (2:221/1) reported this in his echomail
about v1.5.18. The "or default_to" fallback means articles without an X-Comment-To header keep addressing to "All" rather than the earlier
"Unknown" placeholder that motivated the original revert.




Stephen


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