• Netmail and Email

    From David G@4:930/1 to All on Sun Dec 1 08:14:38 2024

    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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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to David G on Sun Dec 1 14:30:16 2024
    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
    --
    digital man (rob)

    Steven Wright quote #16:
    When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
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  • From David G@4:930/1 to Digital Man on Sun Dec 1 18:11:45 2024

    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
    --
    digital man (rob)

    Steven Wright quote #16:
    When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
    Norco, CA WX: 73.8øF, 21.0% humidity, 9 mph W wind, 0.00 inches
    rain/24hrs
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    David
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  • From MRO@1:103/705 to David G on Sun Dec 1 19:56:42 2024
    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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  • From David G@4:930/1 to MRO on Sun Dec 1 21:45:04 2024

    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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  • From David G@4:930/1 to All on Mon Dec 2 08:42:31 2024

    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
    --
    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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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to David G on Mon Dec 2 12:07:11 2024
    Re: Netmail and Email
    By: David G to All on Mon Dec 02 2024 08:42 am

    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
    --
    digital man (rob)

    Steven Wright quote #27:
    Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
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  • From David G@4:930/1 to Digital Man on Mon Dec 2 21:16:12 2024

    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
    --
    digital man (rob)

    Put in another words, yes, thanks

    David


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