I was chatting with Nelgin in the #synchronet room about this and thought I'd probably better use the message forum. I'm unable to send any outbound internet email and I am also unable to receive any inbound internet email. I've checked all of my port forwarding several times and it is all correct. I checked my sbbs mail settings several times, and it appeared to be all correct. However, in case I missed something, I wanted to share the mail
Your mail server log output is the thing that should provide the best/first clues as to where the problem is. Watch/capture your mail server log output (with debug level logging enabled) while you're attempting an operation and look for errors or warning messages to indicate best next steps.
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digital man (rob)
Your mail server log output is the thing that should provide the best/first clues as to where the problem is. Watch/capture your mail server log output (with debug level logging enabled) while you're attempting an operation and look for errors or warning messages to indicate best next steps.
Thanks, DM. I have been checking the logs. It seems that others can connect to port 25 (even myself thru telnet), but no email. So, I take it there was nothing out of the ordinary with my config for my mail server on sbbs.ini?
I was chatting with Nelgin in the #synchronet room about this and
thought I'd probably better use the message forum. I'm unable to
send any outbound internet email and I am also unable to receive any
inbound internet email. I've checked all of my port forwarding
several times and it is all correct. I checked my sbbs mail settings
several times, and it appeared to be all correct. However, in case I
missed something, I wanted to share the mail portion from my sbbs.ini
and see if anyone sees where I may have overlooked something. Any
help will be greatly appreciated.
On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 05:19:20 -0500
"SYS64738" (VERT/GEO) <VERT/GEO!SYS64738@endofthelinebbs.com> wrote:
Looks like you're receiving just fine.
bbs@bbs:~$ telnet geo.synchro.net 25
Trying 152.37.253.36...
Connected to geo.synchro.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 geo.synchro.net Synchronet SMTP Server 3.19b-Win32 Ready
ehlo endofthelinebbs.com
250-geo.synchro.net
250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN CRAM-MD5
250-SEND
250-SOML
250-SAML
250-8BITMIME
250-STARTTLS
250-SIZE 20971520
250 OK
mail from:<sysop@endofthelinebbs.com>
250 OK
rcpt to:<sysop>
250 OK
data
354 send the mail data, end with <CRLF>.<CRLF>
Subject: Testing
Looks like I can send ok...
.
250 OK
quit
221 geo.synchro.net Service closing transmission channel
As Digital Man says, post some logs of the debug output. Not sure, but
you may also need to set Logging to Debugging in sbbs.ini. It wouldn't
hurt.
That's the thing, there is very little activity showing in my logs. Maybe 4 or 5 hits per day However, I did receive your email, but when I tried to reply back, it gave me this error:
7/30 08:33:11a 0000 SEND Message #799 (1 of 1) from 'SYS64738' #1 to <sysop@endofthelinebbs.com>
7/30 08:33:11a 1760 SEND connecting to port 587 on mail.synchro.net [71.95.196.36]
7/30 08:33:13a 1760 SEND/TLS [mail.synchro.net] WARNING 'Bad/unrecognized data format' (-32) setting session active
7/30 08:33:13a 1760 SEND connecting to port 587 on mail.synchro.net [71.95.196.36]
7/30 08:33:14a 1760 SEND !INVALID RESPONSE: '535 Authentication failure' Expected: '235'
7/30 08:33:14a 1760 SEND !Delivery attempt #1 FAILED (mail.synchro.net replied with: "535 Authentication failure" instead of the expected reply: "235 ...") for message #799 from SYS64738 to sysop@endofthelinebbs.com
7/30 08:33:14a 1760 SEND !Bouncing message back to SYS64738
7/30 08:33:14a 1760 SEND !Delivery failure notification (message #800) created for SYS64738
DM, I sent you an email from a gmail account of what I think my login authentication should be for my system. Could you check that against what you show there?
As I mentioned before, I don't think mail.synchro.net will store andThat's the thing, there is very little activity showing in my logs.
Maybe 4 or 5 hits per day However, I did receive your email, but
when I tried to reply back, it gave me this error:
7/30 08:33:11a 0000 SEND Message #799 (1 of 1) from 'SYS64738'
#1 to <sysop@endofthelinebbs.com>
7/30 08:33:11a 1760 SEND connecting to port 587 on
mail.synchro.net [71.95.196.36]
7/30 08:33:13a 1760 SEND/TLS [mail.synchro.net] WARNING 'Bad/unrecognized data format' (-32) setting session active
7/30 08:33:13a 1760 SEND connecting to port 587 on
mail.synchro.net [71.95.196.36]
7/30 08:33:14a 1760 SEND !INVALID RESPONSE: '535 Authentication failure' Expected: '235'
7/30 08:33:14a 1760 SEND !Delivery attempt #1 FAILED
(mail.synchro.net replied with: "535 Authentication failure"
instead of the expected reply: "235 ...") for message #799 from
SYS64738 to sysop@endofthelinebbs.com 7/30 08:33:14a 1760 SEND
!Bouncing message back to SYS64738 7/30 08:33:14a 1760 SEND
!Delivery failure notification (message #800) created for SYS64738
DM, I sent you an email from a gmail account of what I think my
login authentication should be for my system. Could you check that
against what you show there?
Ok. I went to vert.synchro.net and tried logging in manually. There
was an issue with the password. However, that has been corrected. I restarted everything, forced a network callout and a dyndns, and I am
still having the same problem.
What's weird is that I did receive that email from nelgin from his
mail server from his bbs, but if I try to send from my gmail account,
I get an authentication error. Also, no email from geo.synchro.net
can go to an outside server. I can email from one geo account to
another geo account.
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DM, I sent you an email from a gmail account of what I think my login authentication should be for my system. Could you check that against what you show there?
Ok. I went to vert.synchro.net and tried logging in manually. There was an issue with the password. However, that has been corrected. I restarted everything, forced a network callout and a dyndns, and I am still having the same problem.
As I mentioned before, I don't think mail.synchro.net will store and
forward email for you.
Is this a situation where it was working and now it's not? If it's a first
Is this a situation where it was working and now it's not? If it's a first time setup and you're connecting from your residential broadband connection, especially with port 25, a lot of ISP's block that port, and you would need to contact them to specifically unblock port 25 to allow your mail server to work... I kinda skimmed thru these messages but that was my issue so hopefully this will help you if you've tried everything else, and nothing has worked, check on that as a possibility...
If it's exactly the same problem, then your password is still wrong. I suspect it is not the "same problem", so post the new log activity associated with your test.
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digital man (rob)
Re: Re: Mail Server Issue
By: nelgin to All on Tue Jul 30 2024 10:38 am
As I mentioned before, I don't think mail.synchro.net will store
and forward email for you.
Yes, it will:
https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:relay_smtp
That doesn't make sense. MISSING 'HELO' received STARTTLS. I think youIf it's exactly the same problem, then your password is still
wrong. I suspect it is not the "same problem", so post the new log
activity associated with your test.
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digital man (rob)
Well, I just tried to send an email from my mail server to my gmail
account at 1913 local time. The logs don't show that it even
acknowledged that anything was being sent.
7/30 04:46:31p 2588 SMTP [152.32.243.98] !MISSING 'HELO' command (Received: 'STARTTLS')
7/30 04:46:31p 2588 SMTP Socket closed by peer on receive
7/30 04:46:31p 2588 SMTP [152.32.243.98] Session thread
terminated (2 threads remain, 8 clients served)
7/30 04:46:31p 2152 SMTP [152.32.243.98] Connection accepted on 192.168.4.25 port 25 from port 44114
7/30 04:46:36p 2152 SMTP [152.32.243.98] Hostname: <no name>
7/30 04:46:36p 2152 SMTP DNSBL Query: 98.243.32.152.all.s5h.net
resolved to: 127.0.0.2
7/30 04:46:36p 2152 SMTP [152.32.243.98] BLACKLISTED SERVER on all.s5h.net: <no name> = 127.0.0.2
7/30 04:46:37p 2152 SMTP [152.32.243.98] !UNSUPPORTED COMMAND: 'TlRMTVNTUAABAAAAB4IIoAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA='
7/30 04:46:37p 2152 SMTP Socket closed by peer on receive
7/30 04:46:37p 2152 SMTP [152.32.243.98] Session thread
terminated (2 threads remain, 9 clients served)
7/30 06:10:22p 2664 POP3 [205.210.31.57] client disconnected from
port 57239 on <no name>
So, I went to my gmail account and tried to send an email to my geo.synchro.net email address and was returned this error message:
553 Relaying through this server requires authentication. Please
authenticate before sending.
On the bright side, if nothing else, I have an air-tight
closed-circuit mail server! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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That doesn't make sense. MISSING 'HELO' received STARTTLS. I think you
have to send HELO or EHLO before you can send a STARTTLS
7/30 04:46:36p 2152 SMTP [152.32.243.98] BLACKLISTED SERVER on all.s5h.net: <no name> = 127.0.0.2
Also, the IP is blacklisted.
Yes, it will:
https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:relay_smtp
Sorry, I meant to say "to you". For example, you wouldn't take email
for eotlbbs.syncho.net and forward it to my BBs, right?
Yes, that too:
https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:vert_mx
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