• Sending messages through Frontdoor

    From Nighthawk@21:1/146.1 to All on Sun Feb 18 21:12:02 2018
    Hello,

    Inbound messages are being processed properly at Mystic level. Only outbound messages are not being recognized at Frontdoor level.

    At Mystic I configured as follows:

    Inbound Echomail: c:\fd\secfiles
    Outbound Echomail: c:\fd\files

    At Frontdoor I have configured as follows:

    SecFiles C:\fd\secfiles
    Files C:\fd\files

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    Regards from Nighthawk - AKA Flavio Bessa
    Sysop of Saturn's Orbit BBS - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    fcbessa@gmail.com - saturnsorbit.hopto.org

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A38 2018/01/01 (macOS/64)
    * Origin: Chiron, orbiting Saturn - Brazil (21:1/146.1)
  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Nighthawk on Mon Feb 19 15:08:23 2018

    Inbound messages are being processed properly at Mystic level. Only outbound messages are not being recognized at Frontdoor level.

    I ended up using like a file spool option to hold messages for outgoing
    traffic to nodes just like yours. This takes away any issues around sending other instructions / file attaches etc. to Frontdoor in order to get it to
    send files.

    If you have a look back at info posted by JoHo at the time I was setting up then you should find what you're looking for. I'll try and dig up some
    further info in the coming days when I get some time :)

    Best, Paul


    `I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid, and I'm not going' - Kerr Avon, Blake's 7

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A39 2018/02/06 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From Nighthawk@21:1/146.1 to Avon on Mon Feb 19 06:32:47 2018
    On 02/19/18, Avon said the following...

    I ended up using like a file spool option to hold messages for outgoing traffic to nodes just like yours. This takes away any issues around sending other instructions / file attaches etc. to Frontdoor in order to get it to send files.

    If you have a look back at info posted by JoHo at the time I was setting up then you should find what you're looking for. I'll try and dig up some further info in the coming days when I get some time :)


    Thanks, I'll look into it. ;)

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    Regards from Nighthawk - AKA Flavio Bessa
    Sysop of Saturn's Orbit BBS - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    fcbessa@gmail.com - saturnsorbit.hopto.org

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A38 2018/01/01 (macOS/64)
    * Origin: Chiron, orbiting Saturn - Brazil (21:1/146.1)
  • From Static@21:2/140 to Nighthawk on Mon Feb 19 16:37:17 2018
    On 02/18/18, Nighthawk said the following...

    Inbound Echomail: c:\fd\secfiles
    Outbound Echomail: c:\fd\files

    Unless they changed this from the DOS days Files and SecFiles are both inbound. One for packets arriving on secure connections and one for everything else. The outbound should be the Packets directory.

    I remember my old Squish cfg had both of these as inbound and imported the unsecured Files directory with a "no-echomail" switch so I'd get incoming netmail from unknown nodes but no spurious echomail. For outbound mail Squish dumped packets in FD's Packets directory, which it recognized and automatically transmitted to the host during the morning mail hour.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A38 2018/01/01 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Subcarrier BBS (21:2/140)
  • From Nighthawk@21:1/146.1 to Static on Mon Feb 19 20:08:52 2018
    On 02/19/18, Static said the following...

    I remember my old Squish cfg had both of these as inbound and imported
    the unsecured Files directory with a "no-echomail" switch so I'd get incoming netmail from unknown nodes but no spurious echomail. For
    outbound mail Squish dumped packets in FD's Packets directory, which it recognized and automatically transmitted to the host during the morning mail hour.

    I had tried initially the PACKETS directory, but for some reason it did
    not recognize the file, but probably I'll have to configure it in such a way that FD focus on send files and don't care about netmail.

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    Regards from Nighthawk - AKA Flavio Bessa
    Sysop of Saturn's Orbit BBS - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    fcbessa@gmail.com - saturnsorbit.hopto.org

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A38 2018/01/01 (macOS/64)
    * Origin: Chiron, orbiting Saturn - Brazil (21:1/146.1)
  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Nighthawk on Tue Feb 20 12:38:19 2018
    On 02/19/18, Nighthawk pondered and said...

    did not recognize the file, but probably I'll have to configure it in
    such a way that FD focus on send files and don't care about netmail.

    This is the way to go. From memory it's because FD is looking for netmail is MSG format and Mystic does not deliver that. So I opted to set fileboxes up
    for outgoing nodes, and use Mystic in 'directory' mode to fidpoll packets to that outgoing spool directory for each given node... hope that helps

    Best, Paul


    `I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid, and I'm not going' - Kerr Avon, Blake's 7

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A39 2018/02/06 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From Nighthawk@21:1/146.1 to Avon on Tue Feb 20 08:25:49 2018
    On 02/20/18, Avon said the following...

    This is the way to go. From memory it's because FD is looking for
    netmail is MSG format and Mystic does not deliver that. So I opted to
    set fileboxes up for outgoing nodes, and use Mystic in 'directory' mode
    to fidpoll packets to that outgoing spool directory for each given
    node... hope that helps

    Just did that and it worked fine! :) I was going through the
    documentation, but I can't access the STQ, it states that there is no queue available, so I did send the files manually. I will keep looking into the
    docs to create the filemasks correctly, but at least is working now. :)

    ----
    Regards from Nighthawk - AKA Flavio Bessa
    Sysop of Saturn's Orbit BBS - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    fcbessa@gmail.com - saturnsorbit.hopto.org

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A38 2018/01/01 (macOS/64)
    * Origin: Chiron, orbiting Saturn - Brazil (21:1/146.1)
  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Nighthawk on Tue Feb 27 13:35:52 2018
    On 02/20/18, Nighthawk pondered and said...

    Just did that and it worked fine! :) I was going through the documentation, but I can't access the STQ, it states that there is no queue available, so I did send the files manually. I will keep looking into the docs to create the filemasks correctly, but at least is working now. :)

    Good stuff thanks for the follow-up.

    Best, Paul


    `I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid, and I'm not going' - Kerr Avon, Blake's 7

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A39 2018/02/06 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)