Re: Crash Netmail

[email protected] (g00r00) Mon, 13 May 2024 00:35:31 +1300
Newsgroups alt.bbs.mystic
Organization Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand
Message-ID <[email protected]>
 FB>  PH> Mystic has it's own logic as to how it will route netmail. Refer to
 FB>  PH> whatsnew.txt to see what this is. g00r00 has documented it there. Loo
 FB>  PH> for 'netmail routing' in that document and read this to understand th
 FB>  PH> steps Mystic takes.
 FB> 
 FB>     Yeah, I did go through the docs and the process is pretty smart
 FB> actually.

The auto routing can really simplify things!

You are correct there is a problem with direct flag where it is not routed 
directly to the node - the flag does not override anything..

It has been a while so my memory is foggy but I think the reason this happened 
is because there was no way to specify the direct flag on a per message level 
within Mystic when sending Netmail. It is either every single netmail in the 
base gets direct or none of them do - which is a problem that needs to be 
resolved first.  Users should be able to per-message direct a Netmail if they 
meet a specific ACS level configured.

Once that part is done then the tosser needs to override any auto routing and 
send it direct.

One challenge I could use suggestions on for the community is what happens when 
a netmail is flagged direct and there is no nodelist entry or the entry is 
there but the system doesn't answer or doesn't have an IP address/hostname etc.

... There is an exception to every rule, except this one.