Subj : Re: Crash Netmail
To : Flavio Bessa
From : Paul Hayton
Date : Tue Apr 23 2024 05:14 pm
On 22 Apr 2024 at 12:07p, Flavio Bessa pondered and said...
FB> PH> Based on the rule 2:* you have stated at 4:80/1 then Mystic would loo
FB> PH> to that to route all Zone 2 netmail via 2:292/854 ...so that behavio
FB> PH> is also expected at the HUB system.
FB>
FB> PH> Mystic will check to see if you have a direct connection with a syste
FB> PH> you are sending netmail to and if it find that, it will route the
FB> PH> netmail directly to that echomail node and not look at the Route Info
FB> PH> line you may (I am assuming here) have set up for your HUB system ...
FB> PH> presume something like a Route Info statement like 1:* 2:* 3:* 4:*
FB> PH> similar?
FB>
FB> But that is the point... If I have the CRASH flag enabled for
FB> Netmail, Mystic should (according to the FTSC specs) read the nodelist,
FB> find out the Binkp address for Bjorn's system, and issue an unsecured
FB> session towards 2:203/0. That is what the other mailers do, and that is
FB> why we have nodelists in the first place...
No. The CRASH flag won't in itself be enough for Mystic to do what you hope it will do. Also note that just because you may have run the MergeNodelists function in MUTIL this will only scan the nodelists you point to and build a text file in the data directory of Mystic. This is in turn used by the nodelist browser feature, but that feature is like looking up a phone book for a number, nothing more.
It does not impact on how Mystic deals with netmail (g00r00 may care to jump in when next active to confirm or update these thoughts ;))
Mystic has it's own logic as to how it will route netmail. Refer to whatsnew.txt to see what this is. g00r00 has documented it there. Look for 'netmail routing' in that document and read this to understand the steps Mystic takes.
If you are unhappy with the way Mystic acts, then it's best to post some feedback to this echo and suggest what you think it could do differently/better etc. and why... and then you will need to wait for the software author to reply.
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