On 07/11/18, Ben Ritchey pondered and said...
 
 BR>  St> doesn't stop you from sending routed netmail or anything. Stripping
 BR>  St> out nodes from the internal nodelist just stops them from coming up i
 BR>  St> searches.
 BR> 
 BR> Well, without knowing that a node is Pvt (which is the case when
 BR> excluded) it can't possibly know how to route a message for a Pvt node.
 BR> {chuckle} It may get 
 BR> routed to your uplink who can then host route properly I guess...

The process is

Mystic generates an internal nodelist that is used in the nodelist browser
feature and also as a prompt for users when attempting to search for and send
a message to a netmail style base.

The way that internal nodelist directory is built is determinate upon the
nodelists selected using the nodefile values and the switches used in the
[MergeNodeLists] stanza

[snip]

[MergeNodeLists]

    ; Strip nodes marked as DOWN?
    strip_down = true

    ; Strip nodes marked as PRIVATE?
    strip_private = true

    nodefile=d:\nodelists\nodelist
    nodefile=d:\nodelists\agoranet

[snip]

Static is correct that the cosmetic nodelist lookup won't stop a sender
sending netmail to a private node. But the caveat is that mystic -cfg >
configuration > message setting > force NL match = No.

If set to yes, then a user will only be allowed to compose a netmail to the
addresses in the internally built nodelist directory.

Regardless, if 'force NL match' is set to 'no' and someone composes a message
to a PVT node then Mystic will handle the netmail the same way it does all
the rest.

If the address is known to the composing system as an echomail node Mystic
will route it direct to the node.

Else, Mystic will start at the first defined echomail node and look at
routing info against it to determine if it can route the netmail via that
echomail node. If not it continues on down the list checking each echomail
node for routing instructions that will allow it to route the netmail via a
subsequent echomail node.

To use Zone 21 as an example a fsxNet node that sends netmail to a PVT node
will have it's netmail routed by Mystic via a HUB (21:1/100 , 21:2/100,
21:3/100, 21:4/100) to the PVT node concerned.

Best, Paul

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