In the past, I was able to do just about the peek of what I thought was possible with FD, of course with the help of our infamous Mr. Lewis (almost an FD GOD), BUT, nowadays different ideas pop in that didn't exist before...
With the different technologies for FidoNet that now exist I would like to continue (or should I say -make it primary again- other than the editor) to use FD for my Fido mailing purposes.
WHat I need to know is, because I remeber some time ago the abilty to invoke external programs from FD, if there is a way according to a flag in the nodelist to invoke an external program (specificly BinkD by the IBN or INA flag) which will fire up the external to deliver that mail.
My mailer supports IBN, IFC and ITN:60177, so FD (or any ITN capable) nodes are always welcome to connect here. :)
With the different technologies for FidoNet that now exist I would
like to continue (or should I say -make it primary again- other
than the editor) to use FD for my Fido mailing purposes.
I think you could run the binkd daemon there along with FD. If you
just add the nodes you want binkd to handle in your binkd.cfg it will
only send those packets, it just wouldn't know what to do with the
other stuff so it would leave it alone. Binkd uses the BinkleyStyleOutbound though, that could be difficult.
I think Irex would be a solution, it can deal with FD's outbound. It
would take some configuring so Irex would leave the stuff FD should
handle alone but I think that's doable. You'd need to have Irex run
from an event in FD and I can't remember how to do that but the folks
in this echo could give us a clue. I did run Irex from BT in the past
and it worked well.
I just figured I'd throw my two cents into the "thinkin' pot"...
WHat I need to know is, because I remeber some time ago the abilty to invoke external programs from FD, if there is a way according to a
flag in the nodelist to invoke an external program (specificly
BinkD by the IBN or INA flag) which will fire up the external to
deliver that mail.
One thing just popped into my head, is some kind of a move utility available for FD?
If so you could use it to move mail/files for
certain nodes to another directory. Binkd has support for
fileboxes, it'll send evertything in a certain directory to the
node specified. That would be a reliable & cost free method to
doing this I think.
One thing just popped into my head, is some kind of a move utility available for FD?
yes, as well as a bit of simple .BAT file code... however, the one util checks flags and such and works with the STatic Queue (STQ)... however, i cannot remember if it was ever released to the public... i think so but will have to check a few things to be sure... i know that if it/they are in my files areas, then they were released... hopefully, they've not gone tripping somewhere and i've lost them...
My mailer supports IBN, IFC and ITN:60177, so FD (or any ITN
capable)
nodes are always welcome to connect here. :)
With the different technologies for FidoNet that now exist I would like to PL>>
continue (or should I say -make it primary again- other than the editor) PL>> to use FD for my Fido mailing purposes.
I think you could run the binkd daemon there along with FD. If you
just
add the nodes you want binkd to handle in your binkd.cfg it will
only
send those packets, it just wouldn't know what to do with the other
stuff so it would leave it alone. Binkd uses the
BinkleyStyleOutbound
though, that could be difficult.
I think Irex would be a solution, it can deal with FD's outbound.
It
would take some configuring so Irex would leave the stuff FD should
handle alone but I think that's doable. You'd need to have Irex run
from an event in FD and I can't remember how to do that but the
folks
in this echo could give us a clue. I did run Irex from BT in the
past
and it worked well.
No solutions there, sorry.. but ideas.. :)
One thing just popped into my head, is some kind of a move utility available for FD? If so you could use it to move mail/files for
certain nodes to another directory. Binkd has support for
fileboxes,
it'll send evertything in a certain directory to the node
specified.
That would be a reliable & cost free method to doing this I think.
Getting closer to a solution.. :)
I just figured I'd throw my two cents into the "thinkin' pot"...
Irex could be run from an event and it's likely possible to also
run it
from a batch / script file that is tied to a key (with errorlevel
set in
FD).
Another suggestion: take a look at XRobot. It may hold some
solutions for you... ??
A very happy, prosperous and healthy new year to you & yours.. :)
I just figured I'd throw my two cents into the "thinkin' pot"...
Yep, it just a matter of flipping the bits. Finding the correct
bits is the hard part.. :)
Gonna google that in a minute and see what I can find out about it.
Gonna google that in a minute and see what I can find out about it.
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