Hello everybody!

I imagine this has been asked several times, When you sign in as a user to the BBS you get the option to add an email, I added my @gmail.com but as you may all know GMail is picky when it comes to *dynamic* IPs tunning mail servers.

Can I avoid that addig appropriate records to my DNS such as SPF, DKIM, and so on, or should I just opt to not use gmail?. I opted for just skipping email forwarding.

David

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Re: Netmail and Email
By: David G to All on Sun Dec 01 2024 08:14 am

Hello everybody!

I imagine this has been asked several times, When you sign in as a user to the BBS you get the option to add an email, I added my @gmail.com but as you may all know GMail is picky when it comes to *dynamic* IPs tunning mail servers.

Can I avoid that addig appropriate records to my DNS such as SPF, DKIM, and so on, or should I just opt to not use gmail?. I opted for just skipping email forwarding.

An SPF is likely all you need and as long as your system that receives mail for your domain (your "mail exchange" or MX) is also the host that *sends* mail, then it's a simple SPF record:
$ host -t txt synchro.net
synchro.net descriptive text "v=spf1 mx a -all"

Or you could just relay your outbound mail through Vertrauen: https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:relay_smtp
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Steven Wright quote #16:
When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
Norco, CA WX: 73.8�F, 21.0% humidity, 9 mph W wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs
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Hello Digital!

01 Dec 24 14:30, you wrote to me:

Thanks Ron, as said, I'm on a dynamic IP so I will definitely give your advice a shot.

Appreciate it.

Re: Netmail and Email
By: David G to All on Sun Dec 01 2024 08:14 am

Hello everybody!

I imagine this has been asked several times, When you sign in as a
user to the BBS you get the option to add an email, I added my
@gmail.com but as you may all know GMail is picky when it comes to
*dynamic* IPs tunning mail servers.

Can I avoid that addig appropriate records to my DNS such as SPF,
DKIM, and so on, or should I just opt to not use gmail?. I opted
for just skipping email forwarding.

An SPF is likely all you need and as long as your system that receives mail for your domain (your "mail exchange" or MX) is also the host
that *sends* mail, then it's a simple SPF record: $ host -t txt synchro.net synchro.net descriptive text "v=spf1 mx a -all"

Or you could just relay your outbound mail through Vertrauen: https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:relay_smtp
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digital man (rob)

Steven Wright quote #16:
When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
Norco, CA WX: 73.8�F, 21.0% humidity, 9 mph W wind, 0.00 inches
rain/24hrs
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David
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Re: Netmail and Email
By: David G to Digital Man on Sun Dec 01 2024 06:11 pm

Hello Digital!

01 Dec 24 14:30, you wrote to me:

Thanks Ron, as said, I'm on a dynamic IP so I will definitely give your advice a shot.

Appreciate it.

also you do not _have_ to run an email server or any of the other servers.
if you dont need it, dont run it. one less thing to get attacked.
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Hello MRO!

01 Dec 24 19:56, you wrote to me:

Re: Netmail and Email
By: David G to Digital Man on Sun Dec 01 2024 06:11 pm

Hello Digital!

01 Dec 24 14:30, you wrote to me:

Thanks Ron, as said, I'm on a dynamic IP so I will definitely give
your advice a shot.

Appreciate it.

also you do not _have_ to run an email server or any of the other
servers. if you dont need it, dont run it. one less thing to get attacked.

It maybe just internal IPs and I have rate limiting on those ports ust in case...

David

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Hello everybody!

01 Dec 24 18:11, I wrote to Digital Man:

Hello Digital!

01 Dec 24 14:30, you wrote to me:

Thanks Ron, as said, I'm on a dynamic IP so I will definitely give
your advice a shot.

Appreciate it.

Re: Netmail and Email
By: David G to All on Sun Dec 01 2024 08:14 am

Hello everybody!

I imagine this has been asked several times, When you sign in as a
user to the BBS you get the option to add an email, I added my
@gmail.com but as you may all know GMail is picky when it comes to
*dynamic* IPs tunning mail servers.

Can I avoid that addig appropriate records to my DNS such as SPF,
DKIM, and so on, or should I just opt to not use gmail?. I opted
for just skipping email forwarding.

An SPF is likely all you need and as long as your system that
receives mail for your domain (your "mail exchange" or MX) is
also the host that *sends* mail, then it's a simple SPF record: $
host -t txt synchro.net synchro.net descriptive text "v=spf1 mx a
-all"

Or you could just relay your outbound mail through Vertrauen:
https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:relay_smtp
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digital man (rob)

I've finish setting this up and i restarted the SBBS instance, Now to test I'm planning on loggin in to my *test* system and tru sending email.

More or less related, hwre do I check sbbs log, I found sbbsecho's under the data dir, but I can't seem to find eother sbbs or binkit logs, I wnated to check what happens behind the scenes and check for any errors.

I can always start sbbs clean and checl the terminal...

Best regards.

David


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Hello Digital!

02 Dec 24 12:07, you wrote to me:

It sounds like you're asking "Where are my logs"? If you're running Synchronet on *nix, daemonized, it's probably syslog output you're
looking for:
https://wiki.synchro.net/monitor:syslog
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digital man (rob)

Put in another words, yes, thanks

David


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