On 2017 Sep 16 22:38:00, you wrote to me:

 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.

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

 WV> Isn't there software more geared towards file transfers in fidonet,
 WV> that can do this?

no, there's not... originating FREQs has generally always been done by creating
 a netmail MSG... mail tossers, mailers and/or MSG tools performed whatever
steps were needed to convert the MSG to the proper FREQ format needed by the
destination system... frontdoor handled them transparently and sent whatever
was needed to the remote... binkd doesn't have the intelligence for this so it
has to rely on the mail tosser or some tool like bonk (if bonk can do the
conversion) to do it and place the REQ files in the BSO for binkd to deliver...
 at one time i had a special tool specifically to process REQ files arriving on
 my frontdoor system because FD didn't do REQ files at that time... there's at
least two formats that i'm aware of... REQ and whatever the other one is... in
today's world, REQ is most used because binkd converts it to SRIF to feed to a
FREQ processor like allfix so that allfix can go find the files and queue them
for delivery during this live connection... the problem is that REQ with binkd
requires manual intervention that wasn't needed years ago... there are some
huge regressions in the network with the widespread use of binkd and only a few
 remember how to do some of those things manually...

 WV> Maybe something like allfix? (Just guessing)

allfix is just a FREQ processor that handles the inbound request and queues up
the response(s) and files requested...

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