So I'm working on ironing out any FTN issues.

I had some issues with WHAT passwords were needed, TIC/PKT/FIX/BINKP, on some networks... but I think I have that ironed.

Also, the MD5 setting was borked on my Fidonet which was not allowing authorization... and I sometimes don't know if I should set CRASH/NORMAL...


However the question that is currently pressing is... I have a bunch of files, for fsxNet and tqwNet, that are logging as 'unknown inbound files'.

Can someone explain what might remedy this? Is that also a password issue? Any help would be appreciated... as I continue to FULLY grasp these FTNs. They are so simple... but if you don't feed them what they need, broken.



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However the question that is currently pressing is... I have a bunch of files, for fsxNet and tqwNet, that are logging as 'unknown inbound
files'.

Someone correct me if I am wrong, But, it means you are receiving files but by the .TIC file, Mystic has no idea where to put them, because you don't have the file area for that file setup. You can open up the TIC and see where it wants to put the file by looking at the AREA tag within the .TIC file.

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Someone correct me if I am wrong, But, it means you are receiving files butby the .TIC file, Mystic has no idea where to put them, because you don't havethe file area for that file setup. You can open up the TIC and see where itwants to put the file by looking at the AREA tag within the .TIC file.

Thanks, K. Usually Mystic will auto-add a file area if a file comes in. And I do have all the fsx areas... and I *think* all the twq ones. I will go open them and see what data they have for me.

I'm grasping FTNs better now, after having diagnosed and learned about the logs. I'm sure theres STILL answers in there concerning the file issue but... thanks kind sir.



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Someone correct me if I am wrong, But, it means you are receiving files butby the .TIC file, Mystic has no idea where to put them, because you don't havethe file area for that file setup. You can open up the TIC and see where itwants to put the file by looking at the AREA tag within the .TIC file.

Man... heres whats going on: theres NO TIC files. :/ They are just .ZIPs and .zXX files... somewhere I've lost the TICs for them. Hmmmm..

Does anyone know; is there a way to have the FTN send new TICs or - are those just dead files now?



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On 23 Dec 2020 at 06:00a, paulie420 pondered and said...

Man... heres whats going on: theres NO TIC files. :/ They are just .ZIPs and .zXX files... somewhere I've lost the TICs for them. Hmmmm..

Does anyone know; is there a way to have the FTN send new TICs or - are those just dead files now?

Dead files, but you could move them to their respective file bases and tun a manual import on them. I would not bother with the nodelist or infopack files as they update weekly and usually replace the one you have in your base
anyways

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Re: FTN help; unknown inbound files.
By: paulie420 to All on Tue Dec 22 2020 10:41 am

Hey Paulie,

However the question that is currently pressing is... I have a bunch of files, for fsxNet and tqwNet, that are
logging as 'unknown inbound files'.

Unknown inbound files are files sent to you by somebody who didnt authenticate.

You should see messages in your mailer log confirming who sent the file and whether they authenticated.

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Dead files, but you could move them to their respective file bases and
tun amanual import on them. I would not bother with the nodelist or infopack filesas they update weekly and usually replace the one you have in your baseanyways

Ok, so I absolutely know this is a dumb question and.. in fact I bet I could answer it myself:

Can I just delete them all and %RESCAN even FTN file bases?

My answer: I think so... and I'm positive any idiot could just fire up mystic -cfg and go read the FILELIST help file in Mystic. So, thats what I'm gonna do BUT... I bet someone else wonders this too. I wanna make sure I'm carrying ALL the fsxnet files in the fsx file areas.

Lulz...



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Hey Paulie,
Unknown inbound files are files sent to you by somebody who didnt authenticate.

You should see messages in your mailer log confirming who sent the file andwhether they authenticated.
...δεσ∩

I could go check, but I'm fairly sure these are all left over from the beginning of fsxNet, when I didn't carry, nor import, file areas...



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On 26 Dec 2020 at 01:55p, paulie420 pondered and said...

Can I just delete them all and %RESCAN even FTN file bases?

You can delete them but the Mystic HUB you are connected to at NET 2 does not support file base rescans - sorry.

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Can I just delete them all and %RESCAN even FTN file bases?

You can delete them but the Mystic HUB you are connected to at NET 2
does notsupport file base rescans - sorry.

No worries... I copied some over, and noticed that others were like... filename.1.zip filename.2.zip, etc etc... I assume that over time, while I didn't have file areas setup, they just sat there and collected. I did, however, shoot all the .zip&.tic files from /badfiles back in echomail/in and they tossed all the ones that I missed the first time round.

So, I'm fairly certain that I'm carrying all the fsxNet files now. With fsxNet, I followed yer video to a tee - and therefore left the file areas out for another day. :P It's easy enough to throw them in... else you end up with an issue like I created.

All is well again.... thanks Avon.



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