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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