Hi! Niels,

(I normally don't read here but I just happened to be browsing echoes, and,
Fmail has always been my second favourite tosser... :)

In a message to All you wrote:

 NJ> Is anyone using binkd as a mailer?  I am currently running FMail Toss
 NJ> in my editor startup script, but I assume it is also possible to run
 NJ> FMail at the time of receival.  Is the "exec" command in binkd.cfg
 NJ> the way to go here?  I wonder what approaches you guys use for this
 NJ> purpose.

I've always preferred to use the 'exec' command, to fire-up a DOS batch
rather than just the tosser's executable.  So, my old binkD (v0.95a) config
file included:

---8<---
exec "start /m M:\\Binkley\\BinkBats\\ThisToss.Pif" *.pkt *.tic
exec "start /m M:\\Binkley\\BinkBats\\ThisToss.Pif" *.su? *.mo?
*.tu? *.we? *.th? *.fr? *.sa?
exec "SRIF_Req.Bat *S M:\\BINKLEY\\FreqAlia.Txt I:\\FreqFail.txt" *.req
---8<---

N.B.  The command for the tosser calls the .Pif rather than the batch
directly.  It's one of those nice Win9x features.  Yes, I still run Win98se
in a VirtualBox (vBox).

These days I usually run Radius but the binkD configuration is a nice
backup and came in handy for a month or so in late 2010 when Radius was a
bit wobbly (it was Windows's fault not Radius).  The batch files work
whether running either from binkD or Radius.

For a Linux flavoured binkD (also v0.95a) running near 24/7 in another vBox
but which does -not- receive *.Tic files, I use:

---8<---
exec "/opt/ftn/fido/bin/newNodeL.sh"
[Nn][Oo][Dd][Ee][Ll][Ii][Ss][Tt].[Zz][0-9][0-9] binkd.txt
exec "/opt/ftn/fido/bin/tossmail" *.su? *.mo? *.tu? *.we? *.th?
*.fr? *.sa? *.pkt
---8<---

In this case, both "newNodeL.sh" and "tossmail" are
shell scripts rather than calling any particular software distribution's
executable directly.

BTW, I also run another binkD (v1.0a-551) 24/7 on the host Ubuntu PC that
runs a 'Stargate' facility, accepting files from any other machine on the
LAN.  They just magically appear.  =:)

Cheers,
Paul.

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