Re: SMTP outbound mail from a mail clientã By: deon to Digital Man on Sat Feb 04 2023 10:53 pmãã > Hey DM,ã >ã > I just setup using POP and SMTP via Mac mail with Synchronet (its great thatã > SBBS can do POP/SMTP email)...ã >ã > I sent an email today, to: User One <
xxxx@4ma.xyz>, with a cc: User Twoã > <
yyyy@bbs.nz> from mac mail.ã >ã > When it sent I watched the logs and noticed this:ã >ã > mail 0073 SMTP <deon> deon relaying to external mail service: 4ma.xyzã > mail 0073 SMTP <deon> deon relaying to external mail service: bbs.nzã > mail 0073 SMTP <deon> Receiving mail message from <
xxxx@xxx.dege.au> toã > <
xxxx@bbs.nz>ã > mail 0073 SMTP <deon> End of message (body: 563 lines, 30587 bytes, header:ã > 13 lines, 590 bytes)ã > mail 0073 SMTP <deon> Added message header #5548 from 'Deon George' #1 toã > <
xxxx@4ma.xyz>ã > mail 0073 SMTP <deon> Added message header #5549 from 'Deon George' #1 toã > <
yyyy@bbs.nz>ã > mail 0000 SEND Message #5548 (374 of 375) from 'Deon George' #1 to 'Userã > One' <
xxxx@4ma.xyz>ã > mail 0086 SEND/TLS Successfully sent message #5548 (30589 bytes, 564 lines)ã > from 'Deon George' #1 to 'User One' <
xxxx@4ma.xyz>ã > mail 0000 SEND Message #5549 (375 of 375) from 'Deon George' #1 to 'Userã > One' <
yyyy@bbs.nz>ã > mail 0086 SEND/TLS Successfully sent message #5549 (30589 bytes, 564 lines)ã > from 'Deon George' #1 to 'User One' <
yyyy@bbs.nz>ã >ã > Notice that the log records both outbound emails as "User One", instead ofã > the email to @bbs.nz should be "User Two" (on the last line above).ããYeah, the log messages for multiple recipients of a single message are a bit wonky. That's a known issue, but not a particularly high priority to "fix".ãã > So I logged on and looked at sent mails via the ;MAIL, and noticed somethingã > completely different:ã >ã > The message was recorded twice (OK), the first one rendered correctly (theã > receipients named matched the email address), the second one was different:ã >ã > ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄúúúúã > ³ Subj: Re: fsxnet applicationã > ³ Attr: Deleted Sent KillSentã > ³ To : User One (
yyyy@bbs.nz)ã > ³ CC : User Two <
yyyy@bbs.nz>ã > ³ From: Deon George #1 (
xxxx@xxx.dege.au)ã > ³ Date: Sat Feb 04 2023 09:50 pm UTC+11:00 (35 minutes ago)ã > Àã >ã > The "To" has the correct name, but the wrong email address.ã >ã > I checked my SMTP log, and it appears the mails were sent to the rightã > people - not sure if their names were correct though...?ããIf you enable debug level log output and the DEBUG_TX option in the [mail]ãsection of ctrl/sbbs.ini, you'll get to see all the message headers as they were sent.ã-- ã digital man (rob)ããThis Is Spinal Tap quote #11:ãNigel Tufnel: No. no. That's it, you've seen enough of that one.ãNorco, CA WX: 68.9øF, 34.0% humidity, 10 mph SSE wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrsã---ã þ Synchronet þ Vertrauen þ Home of Synchronet þ [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.netã