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    From Ner@1:103/705 to All on Sun Nov 19 01:06:20 2023
    Hi guys,
    I have the following setup.
    1. I use the mail.synchro.net outgoing mail relay for both incoming and outgoin

    g mail i.e. mail.snchro.net set setup on my side as an mx relay. This all works--I've setup logs so that I see all of the responses for sending and receiving mail--this is verboxe, but it helped me determine if my setup was correct.
    I set forward email to netmail, option m in default settings to yes, and entered my gmail email address (in other words, the system is supposed to foward all email to me at my gmail address.
    According to logs, mail gets out and all bits are set orrectly i.e. it says that mail should be forwarded. Problem is that when I use gmail as my forwarding address, it delivers to the bitbucket in the sky and I do not receive the mail. If I set mail forwarding to anything but gmail, I receive the mail.
    Has anyone else experienced this behavior with GMAIL? I can in fact send mail to myself from the bbs and the nreceive it. I've checked spam--the message simply doesn't arrive. For now, I will set forwarding to my other address, butjust wanted to ask if anyone'se gotten it to work/if that was a known issue.

    Thanks.

    Noel

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Ner on Sun Nov 19 13:44:48 2023
    Re: forwarding personal email to gmail
    By: Ner to All on Sun Nov 19 2023 01:06 am

    Hi guys,
    I have the following setup.
    1. I use the mail.synchro.net outgoing mail relay for both incoming and outgoin

    g mail i.e. mail.snchro.net set setup on my side as an mx relay. This all works--I've setup logs so that I see all of the responses for sending and receiving mail--this is verboxe, but it helped me determine if my setup was correct.
    I set forward email to netmail, option m in default settings to yes, and entered my gmail email address (in other words, the system is supposed to foward all email to me at my gmail address.
    According to logs, mail gets out and all bits are set orrectly i.e. it says that mail should be forwarded. Problem is that when I use gmail as my forwarding address, it delivers to the bitbucket in the sky and I do not receive the mail. If I set mail forwarding to anything but gmail, I receive the mail.
    Has anyone else experienced this behavior with GMAIL? I can in fact send mail to myself from the bbs and the nreceive it. I've checked spam--the message simply doesn't arrive. For now, I will set forwarding to my other address, butjust wanted to ask if anyone'se gotten it to work/if that was a known issue.

    The log entries from the Synchronet sendmail thread will give you the clue (e.g. error messages) you're looking for. The sendmail thread will attempt delivery a configurable number of times and then bounce the mail back to the sender, so if gmail is refusing the mail, it'll eventually bounce back, but check your log for the delivery attempts.

    Most likely, gmail wants your domain to be protected with SPF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework

    Someone created a howto page on the Synchronet wiki for SPF and other concerns around email security:
    https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:emailsec
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  • From Ner@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Mon Nov 20 23:25:48 2023
    Re: forwarding personal email to gmail
    By: Ner to Digital Man on Mon Nov 20 2023 10:33 pm

    Strike that. I've covered all bases now. I can use synchronet forward with MXrelay if I need to, I can use port 25 inbound mail for MX or I can send throughfastmail, and all things check out similarly. If you use fastmail as your MTA,delete all addresses from your domain, thus allowing mail to be delivered to
    the correct domain and not internally forwarded. I did set SPF and DMARC, leaving the fastmail records in place, and this seems to not hurt my ability tosend mail/receive it.

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