Hey DM,

I just setup using POP and SMTP via Mac mail with Synchronet (its great that SBBS can do POP/SMTP email)...

I sent an email today, to: User One <[email protected]>, with a cc: User Two <[email protected]> from mac mail.

When it sent I watched the logs and noticed this:

mail 0073 SMTP <deon> deon relaying to external mail service: 4ma.xyz
mail 0073 SMTP <deon> deon relaying to external mail service: bbs.nz
mail 0073 SMTP <deon> Receiving mail message from <[email protected]> to <[email protected]>
mail 0073 SMTP <deon> End of message (body: 563 lines, 30587 bytes, header: 13 lines, 590 bytes)
mail 0073 SMTP <deon> Added message header #5548 from 'Deon George' #1 to <[email protected]>
mail 0073 SMTP <deon> Added message header #5549 from 'Deon George' #1 to <[email protected]>
mail 0000 SEND Message #5548 (374 of 375) from 'Deon George' #1 to 'User One' <[email protected]>
mail 0086 SEND/TLS Successfully sent message #5548 (30589 bytes, 564 lines) from 'Deon George' #1 to 'User One' <[email protected]>
mail 0000 SEND Message #5549 (375 of 375) from 'Deon George' #1 to 'User One' <[email protected]>
mail 0086 SEND/TLS Successfully sent message #5549 (30589 bytes, 564 lines) from 'Deon George' #1 to 'User One' <[email protected]>

Notice that the log records both outbound emails as "User One", instead of the email to @bbs.nz should be "User Two" (on the last line above).

So I logged on and looked at sent mails via the ;MAIL, and noticed something completely different:

The message was recorded twice (OK), the first one rendered correctly (the receipients named matched the email address), the second one was different:

�����������������������������
� Subj: Re: fsxnet application
� Attr: Deleted Sent KillSent
� To : User One ([email protected])
� CC : User Two <[email protected]>
� From: Deon George #1 ([email protected])
� Date: Sat Feb 04 2023 09:50 pm UTC+11:00 (35 minutes ago)
�

The "To" has the correct name, but the wrong email address.

I checked my SMTP log, and it appears the mails were sent to the right people - not sure if their names were correct though...?


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Re: SMTP outbound mail from a mail client
By: deon to Digital Man on Sat Feb 04 2023 10:53 pm

Hey DM,

I just setup using POP and SMTP via Mac mail with Synchronet (its great that SBBS can do POP/SMTP email)...

I sent an email today, to: User One <[email protected]>, with a cc: User Two <[email protected]> from mac mail.

When it sent I watched the logs and noticed this:

mail 0073 SMTP <deon> deon relaying to external mail service: 4ma.xyz
mail 0073 SMTP <deon> deon relaying to external mail service: bbs.nz
mail 0073 SMTP <deon> Receiving mail message from <[email protected]> to <[email protected]>
mail 0073 SMTP <deon> End of message (body: 563 lines, 30587 bytes, header: 13 lines, 590 bytes)
mail 0073 SMTP <deon> Added message header #5548 from 'Deon George' #1 to <[email protected]>
mail 0073 SMTP <deon> Added message header #5549 from 'Deon George' #1 to <[email protected]>
mail 0000 SEND Message #5548 (374 of 375) from 'Deon George' #1 to 'User One' <[email protected]>
mail 0086 SEND/TLS Successfully sent message #5548 (30589 bytes, 564 lines) from 'Deon George' #1 to 'User One' <[email protected]>
mail 0000 SEND Message #5549 (375 of 375) from 'Deon George' #1 to 'User One' <[email protected]>
mail 0086 SEND/TLS Successfully sent message #5549 (30589 bytes, 564 lines) from 'Deon George' #1 to 'User One' <[email protected]>

Notice that the log records both outbound emails as "User One", instead of the email to @bbs.nz should be "User Two" (on the last line above).

Yeah, the log messages for multiple recipients of a single message are a bit wonky. That's a known issue, but not a particularly high priority to "fix".

So I logged on and looked at sent mails via the ;MAIL, and noticed something completely different:

The message was recorded twice (OK), the first one rendered correctly (the receipients named matched the email address), the second one was different:

�����������������������������
� Subj: Re: fsxnet application
� Attr: Deleted Sent KillSent
� To : User One ([email protected])
� CC : User Two <[email protected]>
� From: Deon George #1 ([email protected])
� Date: Sat Feb 04 2023 09:50 pm UTC+11:00 (35 minutes ago)
�

The "To" has the correct name, but the wrong email address.

I checked my SMTP log, and it appears the mails were sent to the right people - not sure if their names were correct though...?

If you enable debug level log output and the DEBUG_TX option in the [mail] section of ctrl/sbbs.ini, you'll get to see all the message headers as they were sent.
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