Slnce settimg up the nodelist browser, doing the list merge and creating the nodelist.txt file in /data, it's lmpossible to send netmail. After entering the recipient info and hitting enter, the nodelist browser launches. As soon
as you exit the browser you are back at the message menu with no chance to continue creating the message. If I remove the /data/nodelist.txt file, effectvly disabling the nodelist browser, then creating a netmail message
goes ok with prompt for recipient, adress, subject then message all flowing fine. Am I misundrstanding the functinality and/or being thick as a brick,
or is something malfunctioning? Thanks!

Dave

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On 19 May 2019 at 04:15p, Scarecrow pondered and said...

Slnce settimg up the nodelist browser, doing the list merge and creating the nodelist.txt file in /data, it's lmpossible to send netmail. After entering the recipient info and hitting enter, the nodelist browser launches. As soon as you exit the browser you are back at the message
menu with no chance to continue creating the message. If I remove the /data/nodelist.txt file, effectvly disabling the nodelist browser, then creating a netmail message goes ok with prompt for recipient, adress, subject then message all flowing fine. Am I misundrstanding the functinality and/or being thick as a brick, or is something malfunctioning? Thanks!

I guess I'd want to check your nodelist is compiling correctly first.
I'd also check you are trying to compose a netmail in a netmail base and your ACS settings in the message base are correct
Also check in config > message config > force NL - is that say to yes or no,
if yes, then it required you can only send to nodes Mystic knows about in a compiled nodelist.

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Avon said:

I guess I'd want to check your nodelist is compiling correctly first.
I'd also check you are trying to compose a netmail in a netmail base and your ACS settings in the message base are correct
Also check in config > message config > force NL - is that say to yes or no, if yes, then it required you can only send to nodes Mystic knows
about in a compiled nodelist.

Hi Paul,
I've checked the above, toggled the NL setting from NO to YES and back again with no change in the behavior. Using the nodelist browser seems to work as expected...doing various incantations of searches always finds the proper results so I think the nodelist itself is as it should be. If I delete /data/nodelist.txt and post a netmail, it works fine... asks for the
recipient, the address and subject then the message editor. With /data/nodelist.txt in place, once the recipient's name is entered, instead of prompting for an address the node browser comes up. I thought perhaps it was wanting me to search and select the recipient/node/etc but there is no way
to select any of the displayed search results. After exiting the nodelist browser I'm taken back to the message menu with no further chance to continue on with the netmail message I had started. This isn't a major show-stopper, just wondering if I have something else askew that might be causing it.
Thanks for the help!

Dave

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Paul,
I've poked around a bit more and discovered a couple of things.
First, the strange behavior only occurs with certain recipients. For example, if I compose a netmail to myself, the nodelist browser opens, I enter my name as the search criteria, and it finds me, AND adds a prompt asking if that is the recipient I want to send to. Selecting YES lets me continue on with the message. However, if I enter you as the recipient, then enter your name in
the browser, it returns 7 occurrences of your name, but never gives the "send to this guy" prompt. I wonder if having more than one search result found breaks things. I think this is one of those things that makes you go 'hmmmmm' :)

Dave

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Sorry to flood the base, but I think I figured it out. When the nodelist browser returns multiple search results for a given criteria, if you do
another search using part of the previous results, eventually you will get
to the "send to this recipient" prompt. In the case of searching your name,
the difference in the results displayed is the addresses. Re-searching using
a returned address from the previous search narrows it down enough to get to the "use this" prompt. Not a real direct route, but by golly it gets you there. :)

Dave

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On 19 May 2019 at 10:11p, Scarecrow pondered and said...

enter my name as the search criteria, and it finds me, AND adds a prompt asking if that is the recipient I want to send to. Selecting YES lets me continue on with the message. However, if I enter you as the recipient, then enter your name in the browser, it returns 7 occurrences of your name, but never gives the "send to this guy" prompt. I wonder if having more than one search result found breaks things. I think this is one of

I'd say this is expected, the browser option (from the message menu) is just that a browser that will display results based on name searches across
assorted nodelists or you can use zone:net/node granularity also or a wild
card like 21:1/? to get down to a list for nodes in a zone/net etc.

If you are entering in a specific zone:net/node address when composing a netmail then if the record is present in nodelist.txt (the compiled file
Mystic uses for the nodelist browser) then it will just show you the result
for that and on you go to compose your netmail. If you ask for a wider search then (like the usual browser functionality) you're going to be presented with more than one result if that exists. But I agree then being able to select
from that list is not straight forward.

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On 19 May 2019 at 10:52p, Scarecrow pondered and said...

Sorry to flood the base, but I think I figured it out. When the nodelist browser returns multiple search results for a given criteria, if you do another search using part of the previous results, eventually you will
get to the "send to this recipient" prompt. In the case of searching
your name, the difference in the results displayed is the addresses. Re-searching using a returned address from the previous search narrows
it down enough to get to the "use this" prompt. Not a real direct
route, but by golly it gets you there. :)

It's as you described, trying to show results across all known compiled zones that a name may be part of. You then might re run the post a netmail process and just key in the zone and address you wanted e.g. Paul Hayton 21:1/101

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look like i have same issue. that is why i ask when the node and info files will be pushed to see if i can send to someone

sysop: Alain Champs
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