On 2017 Sep 16 14:11:56, you wrote to Paul Quinn:

 PQ>> Just between you & me before anyone else notices: how does one
 PQ>> bargain with or bribe FMail into exporting a FREQ netmail into the
 PQ>> binkD stream?

 WV> You can't.

one might be able to, though...

 PQ>> FMail completely ignores a FREQ from me to my main node,

 WV> That's by design. Freq's are not really the domain of a mail
 WV> processor/tosser.

right but it is the only thing in position to perform this feat...

 WV> A BSO mailer needs a .req file to send a file request to a node. So if
 WV> you would pack a netmail with a freq flag into a .pkt file nothing
 WV> that you expect would happen except of course the .pkt file would be
 WV> send to the node. Where it would be handled by the nodes tosser, and
 WV> not by the mailer or freq processor...

ummm... FMail can simply look at the MSG and see that it is a FREQ... there's a
 flag or bit setting for this... then FMail can ""pack"" the FREQ by creating
the REQ file and possibly associated ?LO file... the REQ file can have any name
 but the BSO traditional format is to name it via the same
outbound.xxx/yyyyzzzz format as already used... a ?LO file is required to at
least trigger the delivery of the REQ, though... binkd doesn't trigger on just
the REQ alone... if the REQ file is not named traditionally, it needs to be
referenced in the ?LO file like others... REQ files can simply be deleted after
 they are sent... no need to truncate them... all of this would be restricted
to telling FMail that you are using a BSO mailer... it doesn't need to be done
for intelligent mailers...

)\/(ark

Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it
wrong...
... Compared to Rice Krispies, oatmeal is brain dead!
---
 * Origin:  (1:3634/12.73)