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  • EchoMail not a Msg Base option?

    From Tasweb@21:1/101 to All on Tue Feb 1 12:38:15 2022
    Hi all.

    I'm new to this so please go easy on me :-) I have a new install of Mystic and all is well until I try to setup EchoMail. I've read the doco, wiki and followed Avons videos. I understand the difference between NetMail and EchoMail. When I use the message base editor I only have Local, Networked, Newsgroup and NetMail as Base Type options. EchoMail does not appear. The doco, wiki and videos show EchoMail as an option but I do not have it. I'm using 21:1/999 as my own Net Address just for testing. I've tried a new parallel install and see the same thing. V1.12 A47. Am I being a muppet or am I missing something?

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/11/06 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From Vorlon@21:1/195.1 to Tasweb on Tue Feb 1 11:11:48 2022

    Hello Tasweb!

    01 Feb 22 12:38, you wrote to all:

    only have Local, Networked, Newsgroup and NetMail as Base Type

    the wording has changed sine then.. You want to use the "Networked" type. $#-)



    Vorlon


    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707
    * Origin: \/orlon Empire: Sector 550 (21:1/195.1)
  • From Tasweb@21:1/101 to Vorlon on Tue Feb 1 13:28:21 2022
    Ah, awesome, thanks very much, I thought I must have been missing something obvious.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/11/06 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From McDoob@21:4/135 to Tasweb on Mon Jan 31 21:40:03 2022

    I'm new to this so please go easy on me :-)

    fsxNet is really newbie-friendly. You can expect most of us to be friendly. :)

    Mystic and all is well until I try to setup EchoMail. I've read the
    doco, wiki and followed Avons videos. I understand the difference
    between NetMail and EchoMail. When I use the message base editor I only have Local, Networked, Newsgroup and NetMail as Base Type options. EchoMail does not appear. The doco,
    wiki and videos show EchoMail as an option but I do not have it. I'm
    using 21:1/999 as my own Net Address just for testing. I've tried a new parallel install and see the same thing. V1.12 A47. Am I being a muppet
    or am I missing something?

    Erm...if you've followed the Mystic Guy's videos, one of them describes using mutil to 'install' all of fsxNet's echo areas, mostly automatically. Let me
    see if I can give you a tiny bit of wisdom, though:

    This is an echo mail. So was the message you sent, to which I am responding! The fact that we both can read this, is because this echo area (aka message base) is on a network, and not local to only one of our BBSes. Netmail is slightly different. It requires a dedicated echo area, using the Netmail setting that you're looking at.

    I've never used the 'Newsgroup' setting, but I think one can use logic to figure out what that's for.

    You've clearly done something right, though! We can hear you! Welcome to the party, Tasweb! =D

    McDoob
    SysOp, PiBBS
    pibbs.sytes.net

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: PiBBS (21:4/135)
  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Tasweb on Tue Feb 1 15:53:39 2022
    On 01 Feb 2022 at 01:28p, Tasweb pondered and said...

    Ah, awesome, thanks very much, I thought I must have been missing something obvious.

    Just that I need to get on and update videos :)

    Daily life is keeping me rather busy at present but I intend to do so.

    Welcome :)

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/11/06 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Vorlon on Tue Feb 1 15:54:06 2022

    On 01 Feb 2022 at 11:11a, Vorlon pondered and said...

    the wording has changed sine then.. You want to use the "Networked"
    type. $#-)

    thank you for helping a new chap :)

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/11/06 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From Vorlon@21:1/195.1 to Avon on Wed Feb 2 09:43:42 2022

    Hello Avon!

    01 Feb 22 15:54, you wrote to me:

    On 01 Feb 2022 at 11:11a, Vorlon pondered and said...

    the wording has changed sine then.. You want to use the
    "Networked" type. $#-)

    thank you for helping a new chap :)

    I seam to have gone on a writing spree yesterday! #-O



    Vorlon


    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707
    * Origin: \/orlon Empire: Sector 550 (21:1/195.1)
  • From Tasweb@21:1/101 to McDoob on Fri Feb 4 21:17:53 2022
    :-) Thanks!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/11/06 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From Tasweb@21:1/101 to Avon on Fri Feb 4 21:18:56 2022
    You have a very soothing voice, the videos are great!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/11/06 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Tasweb on Sat Feb 5 13:25:42 2022
    On 04 Feb 2022 at 09:18p, Tasweb pondered and said...

    You have a very soothing voice, the videos are great!

    A long time ago I worked in broadcasting so that may have something to do with it. :)

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/11/06 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)