Subj : FIDOIN event issue
To   : RickV
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Apr 30 2026 11:04 am

  Re: FIDOIN event issue
  By: RickV to Digital Man on Wed Apr 29 2026 08:41 pm

 >
 > Hello Digital!
 >
 > 29 Apr 26 22:41, you wrote to me:
 >
 >  DM>   Re: FIDOIN event issue
 >  DM>   By: RickV to All on Wed Apr 29 2026 06:31 pm
 >
 >  >> Hello everybody!
 >
 >  >> In my FIDOIN event I have a java script that I created that runs a
 >  >> couple of other things and tosses the mail, but when it runs it
 >  >> opens a normal sized window on the PC instead if being minimized.
 >  >> This seems to have started a few months ago and I can't figure out
 >  >> why. Anyone have a thought on this? It
 >  >> was minimized in the taskbar before.
 >
 >  >> Windows 11/64 Pro
 >  >> Synchronet 3.21e
 >
 >  DM> How do you have the FIDOIN event configured in SCFG?
 >
 >  DM> Do you have Options = XTRN_MINIMIZED (likely with other option flags)
 >  DM> in the [bbs] section of your ctrl/sbbs.ini file? This correlates with
 >  DM> the "Minimize externals" checkbox in the SBBSCTRL->Terminal
 >  DM> Server->Config dialog.

 >  My cfg for FIDOIN is this
 >
 > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nFXgwiUtN5oj-wLLuyHqldBJ-wFLPa36/view?usp=s
 > har ing

That's text, so you should be able to just select/copy and paste into a 
messaage (in the future).
 >
 > And I also un-commented the XTRN_MINIMIZE in th sbbs.ini, but it still oper
 > the window in normal mode.

So that command-line ("?copy_inbound.js") runs in-process, it's not "external". 
So I'm guessing that whatever copy_inbound.js is doing is what is opening a 
window on your desktop. So the next obvious question would be, what's in 
copy_inbound.js?
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