Subj : Re: ifcico
To   : Zip
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Mon Jul 08 2024 11:08 am

 > Hello Dumas!

 > On 04 Jul 2024, Dumas Walker said the following...

 >  DW> I am getting the following error.  I have confirmed that the node being
 >  DW> called does have a proper INA entry.  I also added the internet address
 >  DW> to the IFC flag, just in case, but I am still receiving this error.
 >  DW> Any help would be appreciated.

 > The parser/grammar of ifcico is very limited, so any additions to the IFC
 > flag *could* cause it to be ignored, leaving dial-out as the only option,
 > and, as you noted, there is no phone number available.

 > Not sure why one gets exit status 7 instead of 8 ("Phone number
 > unavailable"), though...

 > I get the same result here if I try to poll manually ('ifcico
 > f105.n2320.z1'). :-/

I wrote a response to this but don't see it now!

I checked for some additional documentation but did not find any. I looked over
the command line options for polling out and decided to try a couple I had not
been using. Come to find out, if you are going to poll a node via the internet
instead of dialup, you have to give ifcico the information.  It won't read it
from the nodelist.

So, using this command line resulted in a pollout from my test system to my
BBS:

ifcico -t0 -acapitolcityonline.net f105.n2320.z1

The "-t0" might not be necessary but I am leaving it there since it works this
way. ;)  The "-a" tells ifcico what internet address to poll.  If you leave it
off, it will revert to trying dialup even with the "-t0" present.

Now I just need to test it with some actual mail to send between the two nodes,
but at least I know it will poll now, and that 1:2320/105 can properly answer
and log the incoming call.

Your attempt at a poll got me thinking about checking into the command line
options some more, so thanks for trying that!

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