Hello Alan.

17 May 16 18:35, you wrote to all:

 AI> Hello All,

 AI> There seems to be a bit of a snag linking between BBBS and Mystic so I
 AI> have a couple questions.. :)

 AI> What type of .pkt files does BBBS create when sending mail to other
 AI> nodes?

To my knowledge BBBS uses type 2 packets. That being said, I have not found
a place in the BBBS configs to change that and little is mentioned in the docs
on packet types. Other BBBS Sysops might have more info.

 AI> Is it possible to configure BBBS to send different .pkt types to a
 AI> certain nodes?

Not that I have seen.

 AI> What pkt type works best when sending mail to BBBS?

To my knowledge Type-2.

 AI> I ask this because BBBS tosses messages recieved from Mystic to it's
 AI> bad area unless the "S"ecurity for that area is turned off in the
 AI> conference's config.

I have had that same problem myself. I get a mail feed from a Mystic system and
most of the mail packets I was getting were being rejected by BBBS as security
violations. It seems that the packets had a variety of AKA's other than the
Mystic
system feeding me. If I turned off security for the echo(s) in question in
BBBS then the packets from the Mystic system would be tossed ok.

It appeared that the mail packets I was getting were carrying the AKA of the
system
that had sent them to my feed instead of my feed's AKA. To investigate the
issue I
installed Mystic v1.12 for Linux on a system here to act as a "middleman"
between
BBBS and the Mystic system feeding me. So that the system that had feeding BBBS
was
now feeding "My Mystic" which in turn was feeding BBBS. With that araingement I
was
able to turn echo security back on and the received packets were tossed fine.

I sent some example packets to the Mystic author for his inspection as well
as notifying the BBBS author of the situation. I was informed that an update
to Mystic was to be made.

After taking "My Mystic" out of the picture I had to once again turn security
off
for the echo(s) in question.

 AI> I have a BBBS setup here as a point and when I post a message there
 AI> and send it to Mystic it gets tossed back to BBBS.

 AI> Has anyone had experience with this?

Ummmm... Yes. 

 AI>  Ttyl :-),
 AI>          Al

 AI> --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A14 (Linux)

Jeff

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