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 , with a cc: User Two
 >  from mac mail.
 >
 > When it sent I watched the logs and noticed this:
 >
 > mail 0073 SMTP  deon relaying to external mail service: 4ma.xyz
 > mail 0073 SMTP  deon relaying to external mail service: bbs.nz
 > mail 0073 SMTP  Receiving mail message from  to
 > 
 > mail 0073 SMTP  End of message (body: 563 lines, 30587 bytes, header:
 > 13 lines, 590 bytes)
 > mail 0073 SMTP  Added message header #5548 from 'Deon George' #1 to
 > 
 > mail 0073 SMTP  Added message header #5549 from 'Deon George' #1 to
 > 
 > mail 0000 SEND Message #5548 (374 of 375) from 'Deon George' #1 to 'User
 > One' 
 > mail 0086 SEND/TLS Successfully sent message #5548 (30589 bytes, 564 lines)
 > from 'Deon George' #1 to 'User One' 
 > mail 0000 SEND Message #5549 (375 of 375) from 'Deon George' #1 to 'User
 > One' 
 > mail 0086 SEND/TLS Successfully sent message #5549 (30589 bytes, 564 lines)
 > from 'Deon George' #1 to 'User One' 
 >
 > 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:
 >
 > ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄúúúú
 > ³ Subj: Re: fsxnet application
 > ³ Attr: Deleted  Sent  KillSent
 > ³ To  : User One (yyyy@bbs.nz)
 > ³ CC  : User Two 
 > ³ From: Deon George #1 (xxxx@xxx.dege.au)
 > ³ Date: Sat Feb 04 2023 09:50 pm UTC+11:00 (35 minutes ago)
 > À
 >
 > 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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