On 03-17-20 23:10, Widgit wrote to All <=-

Hi can someone please enlightin me on how the automated robot post work and what is need to do it
cheers

It's done using mutil. You need to create a .ini file that tells mutil how to do bot posts.

Here's my configuration for example.

[General]

; list of functions to perform on startup

Import_FIDONET.NA = false
Import_MessageBase = false
Import_FILEBONE.NA = false
Import_FILES.BBS = false
MassUpload = false
GenerateTopLists = false
GenerateAllFiles = false
PurgeMessageBases = false
PostTextFiles = true <-- this enable the post text function for bots
PackMessageBases = false
ImportEchoMail = false
ExportEchoMail = false
MergeNodeLists = false
FileToss = false
PackFileBases = false
LinkMessages = false

; Set this value if you want to run mutil from a directory other than
; the root Mystic directory or the mysticbbs environment variable:

; mystic_directory=c:\mystic\mystic.dat

; If no directory is specified in the logfile name, mUtil will attempt
; to use the configured LOGS directory from in Mystic's configuration.
; Comment out to disable logging completely.

logfile=mutil.log

; Level 1 = basic
; Level 2 = verbose
; Level 3 = debug

loglevel=2

; logfile time stamp. defaults to NNN DD HH:II:SS if not set here
;logstamp = YYYYHHMMHHIISS

; Log roller type 0=roll by number of files/size 1=roll by number of days

logtype = 0

; number of log files to keep (0 to disable log rolling)
maxlogfiles = 3

; size of each log file in kilobytes
maxlogsize = 1000

; ==========================================================================
; ==========================================================================
; ==========================================================================

[PostTextFiles]

; Total number of text files to be posted. For each file there needs
o
; be a file definition as show below.

totalfiles = 4 <-- number of posts that will be made in this .ini

; The delfile option (if true) will remove the filename after the message
; is posted. The baseidx is the permanent index of the message base to
; post the message into (shown as Index at the top of the message base
; editor in Mystic's configuration. Address is the echomail
estination
; address

file1_name = vkradio.txt <-- file containing text to post
file1_baseidx = 32 <-- permanent messagebase number to post to
file1_from = vk3jed <-- From: name (can be anything)
file1_to = All <-- To: name (can be anything)
file1_subj = Join VKRadio <-- Subject
file1_addr = 21:1/143 <-- Address to post from
file1_delfile = false <-- whether to delete the source file or not after posting.

file2_name = vkradio.txt
file2_baseidx = 36
file2_from = vk3jed
file2_to = All
file2_subj = Join VKRadio
file2_addr = 801:1/9
file2_delfile = false

file3_name = vkradio.txt
file3_baseidx = 15
file3_from = vk3jed
file3_to = All
file3_subj = Join VKRadio
file3_addr = 80:774/6
file3_delfile = false

file4_name = vkradio.txt
file4_baseidx = 90
file4_from = Tony Langdon
file4_to = All
file4_subj = Join VKRadio
file4_addr = 3:633/410.1
file4_delfile = false



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You mean like in the BBS Ads and such?

http://wiki.mysticbbs.com/doku.php?id=mutil_post_text_files

You can use Mutil to do it.

thanks for that ill have a read and give it a go

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