Subj : File tossin', auto-file-base creatin' blues
To   : All
From : DustCouncil
Date : Sat Jul 17 2021 07:35 pm

So I'm still pretty new to this but I've got 4 networks working, apparently, perfectly, including fsxNet.  I followed Avon's videos online, and I set things up so Mystic would auto-create message and file bases, as opposed to creating them myself or doing an import of an .NA file.  I like this as it allowed me to gradually check each one, match each against Infopacks which listed policies about certain echoes needing to be real names only, or Sysop-only.

Micronet's (FTN) message bases work fine.  What it is not doing is creating file bases.  It is one of three networks I've just added which aren't doing this.  Which sounds like, whatever I did wrong, I did wrong for all three, but I cannot figure out what.

Focusing on Micronet then, the first thing I notice in my logs is this Unused Key business which I don't see for fsxNet, FidoNet (same hub as for Micronet), tqwNet, or Agoranet.

-----------------  MUTIL v1.12 A47 2021/06/28 Sat, Jul 17 2021 (loglevel 3)
+ Jul 17 18:27:55  Startup using mailin.ini
- Jul 17 18:27:55  EXEC FileToss
- Jul 17 18:27:55  EXEC ImportEchoMail
- Jul 17 18:27:55  EXEC MergeNodeLists
+ Jul 17 18:27:55  Process: Toss FDN/TIC Files
+ Jul 17 18:27:55    Waiting for BUSY nodes
+ Jul 17 18:27:55    Tossing ti_00bgl.tic
- Jul 17 18:27:55       Unused Key (CREATED) Value (Created by TickIT 2.0)
- Jul 17 18:27:55       Unused Key (ORIGIN) Value (Origin 618:618/1)
- Jul 17 18:27:55       Unused Key (MAGIC) Value (Magic MINLIST)
- Jul 17 18:27:55       Unused Key (DATE) Value (Date 1626422700)
- Jul 17 18:27:55       Unused Key (LDESC) Value (Ldesc Micronet Information Network nodelist for)
- Jul 17 18:27:55       Unused Key (LDESC) Value (Ldesc 16 July 2021 (day 197).  A friendly)
- Jul 17 18:27:55       Unused Key (LDESC) Value (Ldesc and active international BBS mail network.)
- Jul 17 18:27:55       Unused Key (LDESC) Value (Ldesc Info on how to join is in the nodelist.)
- Jul 17 18:27:55       Unused Key (PATH) Value (Path 618:618/1 1626422702 Fri Jul 16 08:05:02 2021 UTC)
- Jul 17 18:27:55       Unused Key (PATH) Value (Path 618:300/16 1626422916 Fri, 16 Jul 2021 08:08:35 GMT; TickIT 2.0)
- Jul 17 18:27:55       Unused Key (SEENBY) Value (Seenby 618:100/1)
- Jul 17 18:27:55       Unused Key (SEENBY) Value (Seenby 618:200/1)
- Jul 17 18:27:55       Unused Key (SEENBY) Value (Seenby 618:250/1)
- Jul 17 18:27:55       Unused Key (SEENBY) Value (Seenby 618:300/1)
- Jul 17 18:27:55       Unused Key (SEENBY) Value (Seenby 618:500/1)
- Jul 17 18:27:55       Unused Key (SEENBY) Value (Seenby 618:510/1)
- Jul 17 18:27:55       Unused Key (SEENBY) Value (Seenby 618:520/1)
- Jul 17 18:27:55       Unused Key (SEENBY) Value (Seenby 618:618/1)
- Jul 17 18:27:55       Unused Key (SEENBY) Value (Seenby 618:300/12)
- Jul 17 18:27:55       Unused Key (SEENBY) Value (Seenby 618:300/18)
- Jul 17 18:27:55       Unused Key (SEENBY) Value (Seenby 618:300/26)
- Jul 17 18:27:55       Unused Key (SEENBY) Value (Seenby 618:300/32)
- Jul 17 18:27:55       Unused Key (SEENBY) Value (Seenby 618:300/34)
- Jul 17 18:27:55       Unused Key (SEENBY) Value (Seenby 618:300/36)
- Jul 17 18:27:55       Unused Key (SEENBY) Value (Seenby 618:300/38)
- Jul 17 18:27:55       Unused Key (SEENBY) Value (Seenby 618:300/40)
- Jul 17 18:27:55       Unused Key (SEENBY) Value (Seenby 618:300/42)

---snip---

Now we get to the more concering port:

+ Jul 17 18:27:55      File micronet.zip Area MIN_LIST From 618:300/16
! Jul 17 18:27:55      Bad from address; Moved to /mystic/files/fsx/badfile/

Note where it is trying to move that.  In the YouTube videos, in mailin.ini, this was set up in mailin.ini:

in [FileToss]:

        bad_dir=/mystic/files/fsx/badfile

However, this shouldn't happen, because:

        ; Micronet

        618:300/1_bad_dir       = /mystic/files/micronet/badfile
        618:300/1_dir_prefix    = /mystic/files/micronet/
        618:300/1_allow_replace = true
        618:300/1_acs_list      = s10z5
        618:300/1_acs_ftp       = s255z5
        618:300/1_acs_download  = s20z5
        618:300/1_acs_upload    = s255z5
        618:300/1_acs_hatch     = s255z5
        618:300/1_acs_sysop     = s255z5

Should it not skip that sort of default placeholder directive and follow the Micronet section and move it into /mystic/files/micronet/badfile?

That "z5" is correct, by the way.

The logs try to toss it a second time:

Tossing ti_00bgu.tic:

<same Unused Key complaints>

But it ends differently now:

+ Jul 17 18:27:55      File mininfo.zip Area MIN_INFO From 618:300/16
! Jul 17 18:27:55      Bad filename; Moved to /mystic/files/fsx/badfile/
! Jul 17 18:27:55      Failed moving file
+ Jul 17 18:27:55    Scanning Hatches
+ Jul 17 18:27:55  Results: 0 import, 0 toss, 0 hatch, 2 bad in 0.01s
+ Jul 17 18:27:55  Process: Importing EchoMail
+ Jul 17 18:27:55    Waiting for BUSY nodes
! Jul 17 18:27:55    Import from /mystic/echomail/in/
+ Jul 17 18:27:55    Extracting 0000ffd7.TH0
- Jul 17 18:27:55    Execute Res: 0 Cmd: unzip -oqqjC "/mystic/echomail/in/0000ffd7.TH0" "*.pkt" -d /mystic/temputil/ /dev/null 2>&1
+ Jul 17 18:27:55    Importing 60f12350.pkt (618:300/1 to 618:300/42)
+ Jul 17 18:27:55      Import #6 to MIN_TEST
! Jul 17 18:27:55    Unknown inbound file MININFO.ZIP

The contents of /mystic/files/fsx/badfile is now:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 mystic mystic 9232 Jul 15 08:42 TWITLIST.ZIP
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mystic mystic 1011 Jul 15 08:47 TWITLIST.ZIP.tic
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mystic mystic 9605 Jul 16 09:05 micronet.zip
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mystic mystic  998 Jul 16 08:08 micronet.zip.tic
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mystic mystic 1005 Jul 16 08:08 mininfo.zip.tic

There remains a copy of MININFO.ZIP in:

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/06/28 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Shipwrecks & Shibboleths [San Francisco, CA - USA] (21:1/227)

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