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    From Vela025@VERT/BEEBS2 to All on Monday, November 11, 2024 18:16:48
    Hey All,
    My BBS can send and receive emails, however if I receive an email on my BBS
    address (vela025@beebs.ddns.net) Synchronet succesfully forwards the email to
    my personal email addess, but it does not appear in my email messages within
    the BBS (selecting E from the main menu, followed by R). Is there a setting i
    need to change so that the email is both forwarded and remains visable from
    within the BBS?
    I think everything is working fine as I get the notification when I log in to
    the BBS to say that the email has been received and forwarded.
    Any help welcome,
    Cheers,
    Ed

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Vela025 on Monday, November 11, 2024 17:26:45
    Re: Email received and forwarded
    By: Vela025 to All on Mon Nov 11 2024 06:16 pm

    > Hey All,
    > My BBS can send and receive emails, however if I receive an email on my BBS
    > address (vela025@beebs.ddns.net) Synchronet succesfully forwards the email
    > to my personal email addess, but it does not appear in my email messages
    > within the BBS (selecting E from the main menu, followed by R). Is there a
    > setting i need to change so that the email is both forwarded and remains
    > visable from within the BBS?

    That's not an option. When the message is forwarded, it's deleted in the BBS's mail base.
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  • From nelgin@VERT/EOTLBBS to Vela025 on Monday, November 11, 2024 22:00:45
    Re: Email received and forwarded
    By: Vela025 to All on Mon Nov 11 2024 18:16:48

    > within the BBS (selecting E from the main menu, followed by R). Is there a
    > setting i need to change so that the email is both forwarded and remains
    > visable from within the BBS?

    As Digital Man says, the forwarded message is deleted. I would probably use something like fetchmail that'll pick up the messages in your account and shuffle them somewhere else. Not an ideal solution but a workaround to keep messages in 2 places.

    A config option to leave messages on the server after forwarding might be useful.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Digital Man on Tuesday, November 12, 2024 09:36:22
    Re: Email received and forwarded
    By: Digital Man to Vela025 on Mon Nov 11 2024 05:26 pm

    > > Is there a setting i need to change so that the email is both forwarded
    > > and remains visable from within the BBS?
    >
    > That's not an option. When the message is forwarded, it's deleted in the
    > BBS's mail base.

    that sounds like a good idea for an option, though. why not have both.
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  • From Vela025@VERT/BEEBS2 to nelgin on Tuesday, November 12, 2024 12:41:13
    Re: Email received and forwarded
    By: nelgin to Vela025 on Mon Nov 11 2024 22:00:45

    > As Digital Man says, the forwarded message is deleted. I would probably use
    > something like fetchmail that'll pick up the messages in your account and
    > shuffle them somewhere else. Not an ideal solution but a workaround to keep
    > messages in 2 places.

    Thanks both, I'll look in to fetchmail. It would be nice to be able to keep
    them on the BBS as well as forwarding them.

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  • From Keyop@VERT/MAGNUMUK to Vela025 on Tuesday, November 12, 2024 17:56:43
    Re: Email received and forwarded
    By: Vela025 to All on Mon Nov 11 2024 18:16:48

    > My BBS can send and receive emails, however if I receive an email on my BBS address (vela025@beebs.ddns.net) Synchronet succesfully forwards the email to my personal email addess, but it does not appear in
    > my email messages within the BBS (selecting E from the main menu, followed by R). Is there a setting i need to change so that the email is both forwarded and remains visable from within the BBS?
    > I think everything is working fine as I get the notification when I log in to the BBS to say that the email has been received and forwarded.
    > Any help welcome,

    I requested a similar feature about a year ago:

    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/593


    Unfortunately it didn't get implemented, so I chose to add my BBS email account to my devices using pop3s for PC, Laptop, Phone, rather than have the email duplicated into two mailboxes.

    Hope that helps?

    K

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to MRO on Tuesday, November 12, 2024 12:05:59
    Re: Email received and forwarded
    By: MRO to Digital Man on Tue Nov 12 2024 09:36 am

    > Re: Email received and forwarded
    > By: Digital Man to Vela025 on Mon Nov 11 2024 05:26 pm
    >
    > > > Is there a setting i need to change so that the email is both
    > > > forwarded and remains visable from within the BBS?
    >
    > > That's not an option. When the message is forwarded, it's deleted in the
    > > BBS's mail base.
    >
    > that sounds like a good idea for an option, though. why not have both.

    The main reason is that forwarding an incoming email does not create a copy of the message in the first place. It simply stores the incoming email as an outgoing email. There aren't 2 copies of the email and the one that is stored is an outbound email or netmail message, not visible to the user. So not deleting it wouldn't help.

    You'd have to create 2 copies of the incoming email (one for the local mail base, visible to the user and one for delivery/forwarding to the external mail address), and that seems convoluted and silly to me. Not impossible however.
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  • From nelgin@VERT/EOTLBBS to All on Tuesday, November 12, 2024 15:00:12
    On Tue, 12 Nov 2024 17:56:43 +0000
    "Keyop" (VERT/MAGNUMUK) <VERT/MAGNUMUK!Keyop@endofthelinebbs.com> wrote:

    > Re: Email received and forwarded
    > By: Vela025 to All on Mon Nov 11 2024 18:16:48
    >
    > > My BBS can send and receive emails, however if I receive an email
    > > on my BBS address (vela025@beebs.ddns.net) Synchronet succesfully
    > > forwards the email to my personal email addess, but it does not
    > > appear in my email messages within the BBS (selecting E from the
    > > main menu, followed by R). Is there a setting i need to change so
    > > that the email is both forwarded and remains visable from within
    > > the BBS? I think everything is working fine as I get the
    > > notification when I log in to the BBS to say that the email has
    > > been received and forwarded. Any help welcome,
    >
    > I requested a similar feature about a year ago:
    >
    > https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/593

    >
    > Unfortunately it didn't get implemented, so I chose to add my BBS
    > email account to my devices using pop3s for PC, Laptop, Phone, rather
    > than have the email duplicated into two mailboxes.
    >

    gitlab, where good ideas go to die ;)
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  • From Grease@VERT/DARKMATT to Keyop on Tuesday, November 12, 2024 19:18:56
    Re: Email received and forwarded
    By: Keyop to Vela025 on Tue Nov 12 2024 05:56 pm

    Ke> Unfortunately it didn't get implemented, so I chose to add my BBS email
    Ke> account to my devices using pop3s for PC, Laptop, Phone, rather than have
    Ke> the email duplicated into two mailboxes.

    Trying to do this in Thunderbird. Having a hard time getting them to shake hands. Possibly how to do the passwords?

    Grease (Will)

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Digital Man on Wednesday, November 13, 2024 08:41:38
    Re: Email received and forwarded
    By: Digital Man to MRO on Tue Nov 12 2024 12:05 pm

    > outgoing email. There aren't 2 copies of the email and the one that is
    > stored is an outbound email or netmail message, not visible to the user. So
    > not deleting it wouldn't help.
    >
    > You'd have to create 2 copies of the incoming email (one for the local mail
    > base, visible to the user and one for delivery/forwarding to the external
    > mail address), and that seems convoluted and silly to me. Not impossible
    > however.

    well it wouldn't be the first convoluted and silly thing in synchronet.
    It would be nice to save a copy and in the subject tag it with (forwarded)
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to nelgin on Wednesday, November 13, 2024 08:42:37
    Re: Re: Email received and forwarded
    By: nelgin to All on Tue Nov 12 2024 03:00 pm

    > > Unfortunately it didn't get implemented, so I chose to add my BBS
    > > email account to my devices using pop3s for PC, Laptop, Phone, rather
    > > than have the email duplicated into two mailboxes.
    >
    >
    > gitlab, where good ideas go to die ;)

    just like everyone thinks they are funny, everyone THINKS they have good ideas.
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  • From Keyop@VERT/MAGNUMUK to Grease on Wednesday, November 13, 2024 18:43:44
    Re: Email received and forwarded
    By: Grease to Keyop on Tue Nov 12 2024 19:18:56

    > Trying to do this in Thunderbird. Having a hard time getting them to shake hands. Possibly how to do the passwords?

    If you're referring to pop3 - make sure its running on your sbbs installation.

    I use pop3s, so thats tcp/995 to receive and I use submission to send to thats tcp/587.

    Re username/password - same as what you could use to login to your BBS.

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  • From Grease@VERT/DARKMATT to Keyop on Wednesday, November 13, 2024 17:22:40
    Re: Email received and forwarded
    By: Keyop to Grease on Wed Nov 13 2024 06:43 pm

    Ke> If you're referring to pop3 - make sure its running on your sbbs
    Ke> installation.
    Ke> I use pop3s, so thats tcp/995 to receive and I use submission to send to
    Ke> thats tcp/587.

    Okay, I'll check that out!
    Thanks!

    Grease (Will)
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