Subj : mutil mailout.ini
To   : Gluon
From : Jeff
Date : Fri May 22 2020 15:10:47

On 22 May 2020, Gluon said the following...
 Gl> Yeah, makes sense. Where can I set that %RESCAN parameter? Is it some
 Gl> option inside Mystic's configuration console?

No, it's a command to the AreaFix program on the Hub. When you get your Net
Address, Avon should also give you a Hub Address (the 21:xxx.xxx address, not
the URL one) and an AreaFix password.

To communicate with AreaFix, you send a private NetMail to AreaFix at the Hub
Address. For the Subject line, put just your AreaFix password. Then, in the
body of your message, you can put the % commands and then send it.

For example, if I sent a NetMail:

To: AreaFix
Destination NetMail Address: 21:1/100
Subject: MYPASSWORD
%HELP

Then in a few minutes I would get a reply (also via NetMail) with
instructions on all of the available AreaFix commands. Some of the main
commands involve listing, subscribing to, and unsubscribing to available
message areas. You'll probably want to get that set up before doing a rescan,
because the rescan only sends messages from areas you're already subscribed
to.

Next, you'll have to prepare for those messages to go somewhere. You can
manually set up message bases in Mystic to correspond to the message areas
you've subscribed to, or you can set some parameters in the mailin.ini (or
import.ini -- whatever .ini you use to process incoming messages). These
settings are in the ImportEchoMail section. One parameter not listed by
default is "origin"; you might want to set that so that all message bases
have a default origin of your BBS name. 

Once all that's set up, the AreaFix command to do a big rescan is:

%RESCAN D=999

And then prepare to get deluged with messages.

Hope that helps,

Jeff.
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