• Question

    From IB Joe@1:342/200 to All on Friday, February 25, 2022 07:56:06
    IS there some easy way to be notified if someone uses a feature on the BBS... For example... If a new user creates a new account the SysOp is sent a message informing them that this has happened.

    Can something be done like that if/when a menu option has been triggered??

    Thanx

    IB Joe
    AKA Joe Schweier
    SysOp of Joe's BBS
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  • From fang-castro@1:218/650 to IB Joe on Friday, February 25, 2022 21:47:04
    On 25 Feb 2022, IB Joe said the following...

    IS there some easy way to be notified if someone uses a feature on the BBS... For example... If a new user creates a new account the SysOp is sent a message informing them that this has happened.

    Can something be done like that if/when a menu option has been
    triggered??

    you could put something in the prelogin menu that only works for new users.

    i think you can call scripts from prompts too.

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  • From g00r00@1:129/215 to IB Joe on Monday, February 28, 2022 10:50:42
    IS there some easy way to be notified if someone uses a feature on the BBS... For example... If a new user creates a new account the SysOp is sent a message informing them that this has happened.

    Yes you can do this is many ways.

    Specifically for new users, Mystic already does this automatically for you as long as you have "sysletter.txt" in the data directory and you have the "Feedback To" field in the System Configuration set to your user name.

    You will get an email whenever a new account is created.

    Default installations of Mystic do include a sysletter.txt by default so if you are not seeing this happen, check to make sure it exists and that your Sysop names and Feedback To names are configured.

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  • From IB Joe@1:342/200 to g00r00 on Monday, February 28, 2022 12:17:27
    On 28 Feb 2022, g00r00 said the following...

    IS there some easy way to be notified if someone uses a feature on th BBS... For example... If a new user creates a new account the SysOp i sent a message informing them that this has happened.

    Yes you can do this is many ways.

    Specifically for new users, Mystic already does this automatically for
    you as long as you have "sysletter.txt" in the data directory and you
    have the "Feedback To" field in the System Configuration set to your
    user name.

    You will get an email whenever a new account is created.

    Default installations of Mystic do include a sysletter.txt by default so if you are not seeing this happen, check to make sure it exists and that your Sysop names and Feedback To names are configured.


    I would like to thank you for your response... I read over my initial message and I see where the source of confusion is.... I'll try to explain myself a little better.

    I would like to be notified when someone presses a menu feature... LIKE when a New User registers as a user. For example I can be notified every time someone access a specific Door or whatever..

    Thanx in advance...

    IB Joe
    AKA Joe Schweier
    SysOp of Joe's BBS
    -=JoesBBS.com=-

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  • From g00r00@1:129/215 to IB Joe on Monday, February 28, 2022 18:10:29
    I would like to thank you for your response... I read over my initial message and I see where the source of confusion is.... I'll try to
    explain myself a little better.

    There are plenty of examples where I skim messages and miss the point too!

    Sorry if I did that this time! :)

    I would like to be notified when someone presses a menu feature... LIKE when a New User registers as a user. For example I can be notified
    every time someone access a specific Door or whatever..

    Yes you can do that and there are a few different ways to do that as well.

    Lets say you want an e-mail sent to you whenever a user runs the door LORD and you have a LORD menu item in your door menu. It might look like this:

    Display Text | (L)ORD
    HotKey | L

    Action List
    (DD) Execute external program lord.bat

    So what you could do is TAB so you can edit that Action List and when the "(DD) Execute..." line is highlighted you can /I to insert an action before it.

    Press ENTER on the new action that was created, then select "Command" and pick "(MX) Post text file to base".

    In the "Data" field set it to:
    runlord.txt;1;Mystic BBS;IB Joe;LORD has been executed

    Then exit out and save it.

    Mystic should now e-mail "IB Joe" with whatever text is in "runlord.txt" in your DATA folder. This will happen any time someone selects the LORD command (hotkey L) on the menu.

    I hope that helps I may not be the best at explaining, but I will try to help you through it. Your "Menu Command/Action list" in the menu editor would now look something like this:

    Display Text | (L)ORD
    HotKey | L

    Action List
    (MX) Post text file to base runlord.txt;1;<etc,etc>
    (DD) Execute external program lord.bat

    In other words, Mystic will do whatever is in the Action List anytime the L key is pressed on that menu, and your Action List tells it to e-mail you and then run the door.

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  • From IB Joe@1:342/200 to g00r00 on Monday, February 28, 2022 17:26:59
    On 28 Feb 2022, g00r00 said the following...
    In the "Data" field set it to:
    runlord.txt;1;Mystic BBS;IB Joe;LORD has been executed


    Worked perfectly

    Thanx

    IB Joe
    AKA Joe Schweier
    SysOp of Joe's BBS
    -=JoesBBS.com=-

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