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    From Android8675@VERT/SHODAN to Digital Man on Monday, April 14, 2025 14:09:00
    Sorry to bother you Rob,

    My email has been borked for a bit, and hoping you can help me diagnose:

    Have everything setup to relay via shodan.synchro.net, and I have my domain mx record set to mail.synchro.net

    So, when I try to send a message from the BBS to my GMail, the from field is weird:

    From: Android8675 <Android8675@undefined> on Mon Apr 14 13:53:51 2025

    (Copied this from the webv4 interface) ...and the sent header reads:

    To: a_____@gmail.com <a_____@gmail.com@a_____@gmail.com> on Mon Apr 14 14:00:50 2025
    Subject: test2

    Repeats the outgoing email twice? I can send my .ini bits if that'll help.

    Wonder if I should just try to set my mx to direct email the board and see if it works. I imagine the original reason I setup the relay service was because Comcast blocks port 25, but maybe it's not the case anymore.

    -Andy

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Android8675 on Monday, April 14, 2025 15:18:00
    Re: SMTP, Relay configuration snafu
    By: Android8675 to Digital Man on Mon Apr 14 2025 02:09 pm

    Sorry to bother you Rob,

    My email has been borked for a bit, and hoping you can help me diagnose:

    Have everything setup to relay via shodan.synchro.net, and I have my domain mx record set to mail.synchro.net

    So, when I try to send a message from the BBS to my GMail, the from field is weird:

    From: Android8675 <Android8675@undefined> on Mon Apr 14 13:53:51 2025

    (Copied this from the webv4 interface) ...and the sent header reads:

    To: a_____@gmail.com <a_____@gmail.com@a_____@gmail.com> on Mon Apr 14 14:00:50 2025
    Subject: test2

    Repeats the outgoing email twice? I can send my .ini bits if that'll help.

    Wonder if I should just try to set my mx to direct email the board and see if it works. I imagine the original reason I setup the relay service was because Comcast blocks port 25, but maybe it's not the case anymore.

    How are you *creating* the email from the BBS? Does the issue only happen when using one of method (e.g. ecwebv4)?

    The best utility to use to view message headers is smbutil (e.g. 'smbutil v /sbbs/data/mail').
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