TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A48   
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    NA> - What is the maximum size of an Areafix request in Mystic?   
      
   Short answer is it can do what you want.  But I'll expand...   
      
   Mystic will process the first 1000 lines before I decides its a troll message,   
   but you can use wildcards, boolean searches, and/or %ALL type commands to sub   
   to large numbers. There is no limitation.   
      
    NA> - How many total Echomail areas can Mystic handle?   
      
   65000 but I can easily expand that to 4 billion if needed. I just haven't   
   because it involves a record change, and no one has ever came close.  Highest   
   I have seen is in the 10,000s with Mystic.   
      
    NA> - If he chose to use Mystic, and if Mystic handles Passthru areas, does   
    NA> it automatically clean-up unused passthru areas (areas with one link   
    NA> left, that of the uplink). For example, this downlink gets a rescan of   
    NA> the last 100 messages, and most of these Usenet groups are deadwood. He   
    NA> decides later that  he wants to un-Areafix the deadwood from my system.   
    NA> Can he run some sort of  report or process on his proverbial Mystic   
    NA> system to do so?   
      
   Yes it can do all of these things although some is just being enabled in the   
   A48 versions.   
      
   You can configure a threshold to interact with echomail areas based on the   
   date they were created and the date of the last message and then take actions   
   which can be any combination or all of:   
      
   1) Send a report to the SysOp with candidates for removal   
   2) Physically remove the base from configuration and disk   
   3) Automatically unsubscribe via Areafix with your uplink   
      
   The report goes to the SysOp account which will then push to mobile devices   
   via Internet e-mail if using those servers.  If you choose to do ONLY the   
   report, Mystic also has options to instantly delete and unsubscribe with   
   automatically generated AreaFix within the Message base editor at the touch of   
   a button.  You simply highlight the base and select "Unsubscribe" and Mystic   
   does everything else from removing uplinks via Areafix, removing downlinks,   
   cleaning up diskspace.   
      
   Or like I said, you can have Mystic automate all of it and then send you a   
   report of what it did.   
      
   Mystic also has automation for creating echomail areas as well when it   
   encounters them so it can handle automating the full lifecycle of an echo.   
      
   You can also do wildcard-based excludes from the unlinking so if you wanted   
   FSX network to be excluded you could say exclude any echotag that starts with   
   FSX_ for example.   
      
   Here are some things it does in terms of hub features off the top of my head:   
      
   Automatic create of echomail/file echo areas   
   Automatic generation of Area/Filefix unsubscribe messages from config UI   
   Automatic reset of echomail stats per node after time intervals   
   Automatic deactivation of up/downlinks after configured node inactivity   
   Automatic unsubscribe of msg/file networked bases for inactive downlinks   
   Automatic outbound file cleanup for inactive downlinks   
   Automatic convert from crash to hold if connection errors threshhold is met   
   Automatic Areafix/Filefix request generation from config UI   
   Automatic SysOp Netmail generation from config UI   
   Automatic removal of inactive message bases including auto Areafix generation   
   Automatic removal of inactive file bases including Filefix generation   
   AES-256 encrypted Fix requests when communicating with compatible hub (no   
   cleartext passwords flying around).   
      
   And here is an example of a report that it generates when set to "Notify" only   
   scanning for dormant echomail bases:   
      
   The following bases are candidates for removal due to inactivity:               
                                                                                   
   ID     EchoTag                                   Created       Last Post   
   ------ ----------------------------------------  ------------ -----------   
   8      SCIMYSTIC                                 16 Jan 2021  19 Jun 2021   
   14     FSX_TST                                   21 Oct 2021  21 Oct 2021   
      
   This feature in the current A48 is actually disabled until I finish testing   
   the automated delete stuff but I will make it a point to do that tonight and   
   upload a new version with it enabled so it'll be available within the next day   
   or so.   
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