Subj : FidoNet Poll
To   : Plt
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Apr 10 2026 09:14 pm

  Re: FidoNet Poll
  By: Plt to Digital Man on Fri Apr 10 2026 01:28 pm

 >   Re: FidoNet Poll
 >   By: Digital Man to deon on Fri Apr 10 2026 10:17:36
 >
 >  DM> Re: FidoNet Poll
 >  DM> By: deon to Digital Man on Fri Apr 10 2026 09:20 pm
 >
 >  >>>> Dm that will not work and I need to pull my mail more often.
 >
 >  >>> But you're complaining that 5 times a day is too often. I don't know
 > what to tell you.
 >
 >  >> I thought he was complaining that his mail goes out immediately, when he
 > wants it to go out when he polls (5 times a day).
 >
 >  DM> Maybe. But the default Synchronet/SBBSecho configuration doesn't do
 >  DM> that (echocfg->Paths->Outgoing Semaphore File is blank), so while (by
 >  DM> default) the FIDOUT event will run immediately (which invokes SBBSecho
 >  DM> export), it will not then immediately run binkit.js. If it is, it's
 >  DM> because Phil changed some setting.
 >
 >
 > This is what I am using
 >
 >                   Paths and Filenames
 > ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ
 >  ³Non-secure Inbound Directory   ../fido/nonsecure
 >  ³Secure Inbound Directory       ../fido/inbound
 >  ³Outbound Directory             ../fido/outbound
 >  ³Area File                      ../data/areas.bbs
 >  ³Bad Area File                  ../data/badareas.lst
 >  ³Log File                       ../data/sbbsecho.log
 >  ³Echo Statistics File           ../data/echostats.ini
 >  ³Temporary File Directory       ../temp/sbbsecho
 >  ³Outgoing Semaphore File        ../data/binkout.now

So you must've set the Outgoing Semaphore File to that value? Change it back to 
the default (blank) and it won't immediately perform a BinkIt call-out.
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