Subj : Re: Nodelist Location
To : Warp 4
From : g00r00
Date : Mon Apr 25 2022 12:34 pm
W4> Good afternoon all. I was wondering where FTN style nodelists should go
W4> within Mystic directory and how Mystic uses them (ie do they need to be
W4> compiled, etc)?
Mystic does not require compiled nodelists, it parses the raw nodelist without compilation.
The raw combined nodelists are stored in the DATA directory as nodelist.txt.
Mystic's MUTIL can be configured to point to various directories where you have nodelists stored and calculate the latest nodelist for each networt and combine + copy them into nodelist.txt in your data folder. You could also do this manually by simply copy a full FidoNet nodelist as nodelist.txt in your DATA directory (if you only have Fido, or using copy file+file if you have more).
Nodelists are used in a few ways. There is a nodelist brower where you can query the data in the nodelists to search for BBS names, systems, addresses, and do things like list all systems in a zone, net or node.
You can optionally force Netmail messages to require the address the user sends to is found in the nodelist data.
And then also the MIS client/server can use the nodelist to send mail or poll mail directly from addresses that are not configured in your echomail nodes.
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