So I found 2 new message bases added to my BBS this morning. Not sure how this happened; at first I thought I had been hacked!! But here is the mutil log showing the creation of one of them.

----------------- MUTIL v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 Wed, Aug 31 2022 (loglevel 2)
+ Aug 31 16:00:08 Startup using mutil.ini
+ Aug 31 16:00:08 Process: Importing EchoMail
+ Aug 31 16:00:08 Waiting for BUSY nodes
+ Aug 31 16:00:08 Extracting 38cbc319.we1
+ Aug 31 16:00:08 Importing 38cbc2f1.pkt (1:153/757 to 1:153/147)
! Aug 31 16:00:08 Area FIDOSOFT.HUSKY does not exist
+ Aug 31 16:00:08 Created area FIDOSOFT.HUSKY
+ Aug 31 16:00:08 Extracting 38cbebd3.we1
+ Aug 31 16:00:08 Importing 38cbebae.pkt (1:153/757 to 1:153/147)
+ Aug 31 16:00:08 Results: 3 echo, 0 net, 0 dupes, 0 tossed in 0.04s
+ Aug 31 16:00:08 Process: Linking Messages
+ Aug 31 16:00:08 Results: Linked 0 msgs in 0.01s
+ Aug 31 16:00:08 Shutdown Normal (0)

What the f....? Why did mutil auto create a message base? How do I turn this off?

... WOMAN.ZIP - Great program but no documentation

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Kumpute Nation BBS (21:2/125)

So I found 2 new message bases added to my BBS this morning. Not sure
how this happened; at first I thought I had been hacked!! But here is
the mutil log showing the creation of one of them.

Ok, sorry, figured it out. Apparently Mystic has an auto_create setting in mutil.ini. And here I was going through my logs looking for an unauthorized login. XD

... They say there's always one weirdo on the bus, but I couldn't find them!

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Kumpute Nation BBS (21:2/125)

What the f....? Why did mutil auto create a message base? How do I turn this off?

Your MUTIL.INI (or whatever INI you are running for message import) should have a config option in the ImportEchoMail section called auto_create. Its default value is true. So if it doesn't exist or is commented out, be sure to uncomment it and set it to false.

Chris

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/07/15 (Windows/64)
* Origin: The Computer Express BBS (21:5/103)

On 01 Sep 2022, MissChief said the following...

What the f....? Why did mutil auto create a message base? How do I turn this off?

I've just been going through the Mystic youtube videos on how to set up a BBS and get FSXNET configured, which covered this information. In the ini file, set this in the ini file for the ImportEchoMail section:

auto_create = false

... Everyone smiles in the same language.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/07/15 (Windows/32)
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