[nos-bbs] forwarding and at timers

[Andrew Pepper]

No, no P in forward. bbs. Which is why I'm thinking there is something else
that is forcing a poll regardless if there is something waiting for the
forwarding partner or not.


On Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 12:54 VE2PKT <ve2pkt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
>
>     In your forward.bbs do you have:
>
> n2nov
> or
> n2nov /p
>
> if /p remove it, it's mean pull the BBS.
>
>
>
>
> On 2023-03-12 08:56, Andrew Pepper wrote:
> >
> > I have 'mbox timer 0', to disable polling.
> >
> > Then I am trying to use the at timers to kick off polling using - at
> > now+0001 "MBOX KICK+" to kick off all forwarding partners in
> > forward.bbs if there is something to be passed.
> >
> > I have also tried at now+0001 "mbox kick n2nov+" to just kick off
> > forwarding to N2NOV.
> >
> > According to the manual if the callsign is lowercase it will only fire
> > off a polling connection if there is something for that partner. But
> > regardless of upper or lower case this 'at' timer seems to always fire
> > off a poll.
> >
> > Is there another mbox command that overrides this?
> >
> >
> > 09:46:25  - AT command: mbox kick n2nov+|25+
> > 09:46:25  - fwd: starting n2nov (n2nov,#2)
> > 09:46:27  N2NOV-7 @ N2NOV-7 - MBOX (n2nov) connected
> > 09:46:27  N2NOV-7 @ N2NOV-7 - MBOX (n2nov) forwarding
> > 09:46:28  N2NOV-7 @ N2NOV-7 - MBOX (n2nov) fwd exit
> > 09:47:25  - AT command: mbox kick n2nov+|28+
> > 09:47:25  - fwd: starting n2nov (n2nov,#2)
> > 09:47:27  N2NOV-7 @ N2NOV-7 - MBOX (n2nov) connected
> > 09:47:27  N2NOV-7 @ N2NOV-7 - MBOX (n2nov) forwarding
> > 09:47:28  N2NOV-7 @ N2NOV-7 - MBOX (n2nov) fwd exit
> > 09:48:25  - AT command: mbox kick n2nov+|29+
> > 09:48:25  - fwd: starting n2nov (n2nov,#2)
> > 09:48:27  N2NOV-7 @ N2NOV-7 - MBOX (n2nov) connected
> > 09:48:27  N2NOV-7 @ N2NOV-7 - MBOX (n2nov) forwarding
> > 09:48:28  N2NOV-7 @ N2NOV-7 - MBOX (n2nov) fwd exit
> > 09:49:25  - AT command: mbox kick n2nov+|30+
> > 09:49:25  - fwd: starting n2nov (n2nov,#2)
> > 09:49:27  N2NOV-7 @ N2NOV-7 - MBOX (n2nov) connected
> > 09:49:27  N2NOV-7 @ N2NOV-7 - MBOX (n2nov) forwarding
> > 09:49:28  N2NOV-7 @ N2NOV-7 - MBOX (n2nov) fwd exit
> > --
> > Andrew
> >
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