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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