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.
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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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 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.
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)
Or you could just relay your outbound mail through Vertrauen:
https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:relay_smtp
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.
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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Re: Netmail and Email
By: David G to All on Sun Dec 01 2024 08:14 am
I was reading some old messages and come across this one. Where do you add the descriptive text "v=spf1 mx a -all" and do you include the quotes? I am not having any mail problems, I was just curious. Have a great day Digital Man! RixterHello everybody!
I imagine this has been asked several times, When you sign in as a user t the BBS you get the option to add an email, I added my @gmail.com but as 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, a 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 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
Re: Netmail and Email
By: Digital Man to David G on Sun Dec 01 2024 02:30 pm
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 t the BBS you get the option to add an email, I added my @gmail.com but as 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, a 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 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_smtpI was reading some old messages and come across this one. Where do you add the descriptive text "v=spf1 mx a -all" and do you include the quotes? I am not having any mail problems, I was just curious. Have a great day Digital Man! Rixter
Re: Netmail and Email
By: Rixter to Digital Man on Wed Aug 20 2025 01:32 pm
It's described in detail here: https://wiki.synchro.net/module:dyndns#spf
No, the quotes are not included.
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