Subj : Automating mail
To   : 2twisty
From : Al
Date : Tue Mar 29 2022 07:57 am

> I've seen reports that when participating in EchoMail that "the system will
> automatically send it out within 60 seconds."

> My system is not doing that, so there must be some config that I am missing.
> I am running the mail manually now.

> Is this as simple as setting it up in cron or is Mystic itself supposed to
> trigger these events.  The Wiki on the Mystic web site wasn't terribly
> useful, and The Mystic Guy's videos are both 5 years old and primarily
> focused on Windows installations.

I just run it from Mystic's event editor. Mystic can be setup to toss mail when it arrives and also to send new mail when it is entered on your BBS.

It uses semaphores. Mystics mailer will create echomail.in when mail is recieved and mis will watch for that file in your semaphore directory and toss mail when it is found. The BBS will also create echomail.out and when found it will scan out mail from your BBS.

"./mis server" or "./mis daemon" has to be running to watch for those files and run the appropriate action.

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