Hi everyone,
I'm going crazy trying to set up emails to validate accounts on Mystic.
Does anyone know how to do this and can help me?

Thanks in advance.

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I'm going crazy trying to set up emails to validate accounts on Mystic. Does anyone know how to do this and can help me?

It's one thing I havent figured out for myself yet, too.

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I'm going crazy trying to set up emails to validate accounts on Mysti Does anyone know how to do this and can help me?

It's one thing I havent figured out for myself yet, too.

I am having trouble with Areafix and having that work. It would be great if someone who has done all this could put together a "Mystic BBS: The Missing Manual" to cover some of these areas and augment the existing wiki as it isn't complete unfortunately. To help new folks in getting things setup. I might try and take a crack at it myself once I get everything working and work through my issues. I'll also try and get the email validation working and report back what I needed to do.

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On 02 Aug 2026, Pino Convertino said the following...

Hi everyone,
I'm going crazy trying to set up emails to validate accounts on Mystic. Does anyone know how to do this and can help me?

Thanks in advance.

Ok here is how I do it on my system. In the prelogin menu the first option is commands ran before the menu is shown, I added a GD display a file which basically states that an email is going to be sent to you right now and you are to get the code and enter it and will be given immediate access.. After that command I put the -V command to validate email address. In the Data field I put 20 which is the access level that will be given to the user if they enter the correct code. In the access field I have s10|s15 so basically anything that is between acess level s10 (new user) and s15 (unused) will get that option to email validate.
That's it on the Mystic login side. The tougher part is setting up a gmail account to send the request from the BBS. In the Servers section of -cfg choose general options, First enable SMTP send, then in the SMTP Host enter smtp.gmail.com:587, in the SMTP IP Type I have Default IPV4, in the SMTP Login choose the gmail email account you want to use. In my case it is wrgnbr2@gmail.com, in the SMTP Password, you enter NOT YOUR GMAIL PASSWORD, but in the config of Gmail you have to set up a Google App Password to use for older softwares. Do that in the GMail settings (Google it and get the exact place it is located), that will give you a password that is like 15 characters. Copy and paste it into the SMTP Password. Then set SMTP Auth Type to login and SMTP Use SSL/TLS to Yes.

That's it.. Hope that helps..


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On 03 Aug 2026, Ryan X said the following...

I am having trouble with Areafix and having that work. It would be great if someone who has done all this could put together a "Mystic BBS: The Missing Manual" to cover some of these areas and augment the existing
wiki as it isn't complete unfortunately. To help new folks in getting things setup. I might try and take a crack at it myself once I get everything working and work through my issues. I'll also try and get the email validation working and report back what I needed to do.

There are a bunch of videos by Mystic Guy (Our very own Paul Hayton who runs fsxNet) that explains quite a bit about Mystic. Plus the wiki (Google it), as for Areafix, there really isn't much to tell. TO get all of the commands you can use go into mystic -cfg under networking choose edit areafix help it will pull up the help file from there you can send out areafix requests. Those are sent like this. You choose the node id which you want to send to x:xxx/xx (your uplink), in the subject field put the password you and your uplink have for your BBS, then in the body of the message just type in one of the commands from the help file you want to do, me I usually do a %LINKED first to see what I am hooked up with, then when I get the netmail back listing what I am hooked up to, I will then choose most of the time do a %ALL to link to ALL echos. I use the %ALL first time hooking up to a new uplink. The help file will list all commands..

Hope that helps...


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Ok here is how I do it on my system.

Hi Al,
Thanks! You're great!
I followed your advice step by step and managed to set everything up perfectly. Thanks again!

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On 04 Aug 2026, Pino Convertino said the following...

Ok here is how I do it on my system.

Hi Al,
Thanks! You're great!
I followed your advice step by step and managed to set everything up perfectly. Thanks again!

Anytime.. Glad I could help!


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On Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:30:01 -0400, Al DeRosa wrote:

Ok here is how I do it on my system. In the prelogin menu the first
option is commands ran before the menu is shown, I added a GD display a
file which basically states that an email is going to be sent to you
right now and you are to get the code and enter it and will be given immediate access.. After that command I put the -V command to validate
email address. In the Data field I put 20 which is the access level that
will be given to the user if they enter the correct code. In the access
field I have s10|s15 so basically anything that is between acess level
s10 (new user) and s15 (unused) will get that option to email validate. That's it on the Mystic login side. The tougher part is setting up a
gmail account to send the request from the BBS. In the Servers section
of -cfg choose general options, First enable SMTP send, then in the SMTP
Host enter smtp.gmail.com:587, in the SMTP IP Type I have Default IPV4,
in the SMTP Login choose the gmail email account you want to use. In my
case it is wrgnbr2@gmail.com, in the SMTP Password, you enter NOT YOUR
GMAIL PASSWORD, but in the config of Gmail you have to set up a Google
App Password to use for older softwares. Do that in the GMail settings (Google it and get the exact place it is located), that will give you a password that is like 15 characters. Copy and paste it into the SMTP Password. Then set SMTP Auth Type to login and SMTP Use SSL/TLS to Yes.

I need to check/do this also, if it works happy for it to be added to the
wiki with attribution to you?


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On Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:30:01 -0400, Al DeRosa wrote:

There are a bunch of videos by Mystic Guy (Our very own Paul Hayton who
runs fsxNet) that explains quite a bit about Mystic. Plus the wiki
(Google it), as for Areafix, there really isn't much to tell. TO get all
of the commands you can use go into mystic -cfg under networking choose
edit areafix help it will pull up the help file from there you can send
out areafix requests. Those are sent like this. You choose the node id

Thanks for the kind feedback :)

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On 05 Aug 2026, Kerr Avon said the following...

I need to check/do this also, if it works happy for it to be added to
the wiki with attribution to you?

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No Attribution needed Paul! Add it at will.. :) With everything YOU and Al and everyone else has helped me with over the years this is only paying it forward..


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On 05 Aug 2026, Kerr Avon said the following...

Thanks for the kind feedback :)

Only throwing it where it belongs.. :)


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