Echomail nodes are the the external systems your Mystic BBS communicates with in order to send and/or receive echomail, netmail and other files.

This section of the Mystic BBS Configuration System allows you to add/remove Echomail nodes and configure how they are set up.

From the opening screen you can see EchoMail Node that have already been created.

                          EchoMail Nodes 
 ID   Active  Description                                   Network 
 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 
 1       Yes  fsxNet HUB                                   21:1/100 
 2       Yes  Agency HUB (FidoNet)                          3:770/1 
 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 
                    Press / for command list                      

The / key reveals a command list menu.

                              I Insert           
                              C Copy             
                              D Delete           
                              E Exports          

This menu allows you to add or remove EchoMail Nodes from the system. You can also copy an existing EchoMail Node and paste (or move) the copied nodes to elsewhere on the list. The 'Exports' option allows you to define which Echomail message bases you want to link to the EchoMail Node.

Pressing the Enter key on an existing EchoMail Node (or a new EchoMail node) reveals the following screen. In this example an EchoMail Node has been set up for the fsxNet HUB (21:1/100) to send/receive Echomail and Netmail to/from.

  Description │ fsxNet HUB               Zone │ 21
       Active │ Yes                       Net │ 1
 Archive Type │ ZIP                      Node │ 100
  Export Type │ Crash                   Point │ 0
    AllFix PW │ *******                Domain │ fsxnet
 PKT Password │
 Session Type │ BinkP
   Route Info │ 21:*
 Max PKT Size │ 512
 Max ARC Size │ 2048
  Use FileBox │ No
      FileBox │
 TIC Password │ *******                 Session Options

There are a number options you can set here.

Define the name of the system you are connecting with.

A simple yes/now setting - unless you set this to 'Yes' it will be ignored by Mystic, Fidopoll and MUTIL when various processes are run.

Leave this blank if you wish to send raw uncompressed message packets (.PKT) files. Otherwise define the compression archive type you would like Mystic to use when creating bundles of message packets in your outbound directory. The common archive type to use is ZIP but you can define others here if you wish.

There are several options you can set here. These determine how Mystic will treat the messages it is creating to send to this EchoMail Node. Should it send them as soon as it can, wait for the EchoMail Node to poll your system to collect Echomail and/or Netmail etc.

The options are:

• Crash -
• Direct -
• Hold -
• Normal -