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...

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