Subj : Mailer and front end...
To   : Shurato
From : Fzf
Date : Sat Oct 05 2024 09:20 pm

  Re: Mailer and front end...
  By: Shurato to deon on Thu Oct 03 2024 06:26 am

 Sh> It's working! The only problem is that my exec command is not running when
 Sh> inbound packets are encountered. It was before, but I broke it some how.

When you added the path portion, you added something which will never be a match to any inbound file.

Short version - Look at the example below and pay **VERY** close attention to the use of backslashes.  The line wrapping is going to mangle the line:

exec "@start /min c:\\ele\\irex\\between.bat" c:\\\\ele\\\\irex\\\\inbound\\\\*.pkt

Pointlessly long version - The last parameter here is a regular expression, not a filename mask.  The backslash character is used as an escape character both when reading the configuration file and when performing the regex matching.  So this original parameter in the BinkD config file:

 c:\\ele\\irex\\inbound\\*.pkt

Gets escaped down to this when the config file is parsed:

 c:\ele\irex\inbound\*.pkt

And when escaped the second time during the regex evalution, it becomes this:

 c:eleirexinbound*.pkt

That is a literal string without any wildcards.  You need the additional backslashes so the parameter gets passed to the regex function with the backslashes escaped.

\\\\  ->  \\  ->  \

Also, the regular expressions for the flag/exec parameters haven't been case sensitive for a while now (20+ years) so there's no point accounting for upper and lower case in them...
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