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  • Broken Relay/Route FTN/QWK when SMTP set to use relay server

    From Rob Swindell@1:103/705 to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Wed Mar 15 23:30:32 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/487#note_3371

    "Configured to use relay server" impacts the behavior of the Mail Server's "Sendmail Thread" only, not the SMTP server (the service that receive SMTP-submitted email). When the SMTP server receives messages addressed to FTN or QWKnet destinations, they're stored in the mail base accordingly and the Mail Server's Sendmail Thread will never see or attempt to send such messages. The "use relay server" setting does not play a role with such messages.
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  • From Michael J. Ryan@1:103/705 to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Sun Mar 26 14:21:52 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/487#note_3394

    Not really.. it was happening when I'd hit "reply" (opposed to "follow-up") to a message in NNTP in Thunderbird... It would email the DoveNet QWK address that NNTP would show... but I'd get a bounce message back from sendgrid saying it didn't understand the address...I don't have a recent example, and Thunderbird no longer works with Synchronet's NNTP, so I'd have trouble to recreate it at the moment.
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  • From Rob Swindell@1:103/705 to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Sun Mar 26 16:48:01 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/487#note_3396

    I wouldn't expect "sendgrid" to recognize a QWKnet or FTN address. If your Thunderbird mailer was configured to use a Synchronet mail server for email, then it would (and does) work.
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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Michael J. Ryan on Tue Mar 28 11:26:14 2023
    On 3/26/2023 2:21 PM, Michael J. Ryan wrote:
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/487#note_3394

    Not really.. it was happening when I'd hit "reply" (opposed to "follow-up") to a message in NNTP in Thunderbird... It would email the DoveNet QWK address that NNTP would show... but I'd get a bounce message back from sendgrid saying it didn't understand the address...

    I don't have a recent example, and Thunderbird no longer works with Synchronet's NNTP, so I'd have trouble to recreate it at the moment.


    I'm reading and replying to your message via NNTP (Synchronet's nntpservice.js) using Thunderbird (102.9.0 (64-bit) for Windows), so I'm
    not sure I agree with your claim that it "no longer works".

    -Rob
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