Subj : Polls to nodes with Internet connectivity only
To   : All
From : Goran Eriksson
Date : Mon Jun 05 2000 01:32 pm

I'm running T-Mail 2607 for OS/2.

I've got one master process that does nothing more than repacks the queue for 
the slaves, generates poll messages and starts certain external programs. This 
master process doesn't have any modem/Internet connected to it.

Then I've got a number of slave processes with modem/Internet connected to 
them.

I just discovered that the master process just won't generate a poll message to 
the following system

Pvt,299,pbbs.dyns.cx,Porta_Westfalica,Sven_Dueker,-Unpublished-,300,MO,IBN,
ITX:pbbs@gmx.net,IMI,IUC

unless I define a fake phone number for it. (In this case the poll messages are 
intended to trigger outgoing calls from a binkp mailer run in a separate 
process.)


I've already found that the slave processes run by T-Mail/TCP/IP will generate 
the desired poll message. But then they don't react on it until the master 
process has detected the poll message and recreated the outbound queue.


Is there a way to have the master process create these poll messages itself 
without resorting to fake phone numbers? 

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