Re: FidoNet Poll
By: Digital Man to Plt on Fri Apr 10 2026 12:25:54
DM> Re: FidoNet Poll
DM> By: Plt to deon on Fri Apr 10 2026 01:19 pm
> de>> I thought he was complaining that his mail goes out immediately, when h
e wants it to go out when he polls (5 times a day).
>> Hello
>> I am not complaining and just trying to keep my hubs happy. I do not want th
e system to call the hubs each time a new message
>> have been posted in the echoes. All the hubs status have already been placed
on hold and all the fidonet events have changed
>> changes to run 4 times a day.
DM> That's not how Synchronet and SBBSecho work, by default. The default config
uration is when a new echomail message is
DM> locally-posted, the FIDOOUT event is run (because the default setting of SC
FG->Networks->FidoNet->Echomail Sempahore is set to
DM> "%jfidoout.now"). FIDOUT runs SBBSecho export, but does *not* trigger a Bin
kIT/BinkP outbound connection (because
echocfg->Paths->> Outgoing Semaphore File is *blank* by default).
DM> So... did you change a setting? Do you have log output that demonstates the
issue?
DM
I did not make any changes to the settings except I added a few nodes, changed t
he Fidonet events to 5 and placed all the node status on hold.
This is the settings I am using by default.
System Addresses 1:275/100.4, 21:4/114 ║
Default Origin Line Themegabbs.ddns.net 6400 ║
NetMail Semaphore %jfidoout.now ║
EchoMail Semaphore %jfidoout.now ║
NetMail Directory ../fido/netmail/ ║
Allow Sending of NetMail Yes ║
Allow File Attachments Yes ║
Send NetMail Using Alias No ║
NetMail Defaults to Crash No ║
NetMail Defaults to Direct No ║
NetMail Defaults to Hold No ║
Kill NetMail After Sent Yes ║
Cost to Send NetMail 0 ║
Choose NetMail Source Address No ║
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║ Paths and Filenames ║░░░
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║ │Non-secure Inbound Directory ../fido/nonsecure ║░░░
║ │Secure Inbound Directory ../fido/inbound ║░░░
║ │Outbound Directory ../fido/outbound ║░░░
║ │Area File ../data/areas.bbs ║░░░
║ │Bad Area File ../data/badareas.lst ║░░░
║ │Log File ../data/sbbsecho.log ║░░░
║ │Echo Statistics File ../data/echostats.ini ║░░░
║ │Temporary File Directory ../temp/sbbsecho ║░░░
║ │Outgoing Semaphore File ../data/binkout.now ║░░░
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