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You can automate the ping process by setting Preferences>Messages>Station TTL to 600 seconds (10 minutes). When a message is places in the outbox, if the target station is not on the station list, or more than 10 minutes old, D-RATS will ping the station before attempting to send the message.

Patrick (N3TSZ)

On Thursday, May 20, 2021, 08:00:40 AM EDT, Michael Mandell <mikemandell@...> wrote:

Our group practices this all the time. "Email" as used radio to radio in D-Rats may be confusing. It's just a digital radio message using something that kind of looks like an email client and form. It is NOT email as you normally think of internet email. You can actually send internet email, though. D-Rats can use an old-fashioned POP/SMTP account (you may still be able to use this with modern stuff like hotmail and others...gmail may no longer work due to Google security and how old D-Rats mail client is). It works much like sending WinLink email using Telnet....no radio involved. Goes right from your PC over the internet. However, a fantastic feature of D-Rats is the ability to use another stations POP/SMTP account to forward internet email for you if you don't have internet where you are. This is a little involved in setup, and as Patrick said, you the station doing the forwarding has to allow your call to forward through his setup. This is incredibly slick.?

One thing to keep in mind when you are sending any kind of digital D-Rats message to another station...D-Rats will sit there doing nothing if that station does not appear in the active stations list on your D-Rats program. In fact, it has to be pretty current (not sure how many minutes). A good practice is to "Ping" the desired station then go ahead and "send and receive" traffic. Otherwise, D-Rats will often do nothing while it waits until the other station is active again.?