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  • SMTP Relay Question

    From Eastside75@VERT/THUNDER to All on Friday, October 17, 2025 14:56:13
    When I first started the board a few months ago, i included the relay through DM offers. Nothing has changed in my setup, still have mail.synchro.net and credentials set as my QWK info. But I had a user send me Email today i am getting error messages in my mail server window.

    Error 10061 connecting to SMTP server: 127.0.0.1

    I dont have anything on my system pointing to any address in the 127 range. my system is based on 192. I have even looked in ini files for a reference to 127 and there is nothing there.

    My router has the relevant ports routed to my board including SMTP, POP, TLS, Submission etc.

    Any ideas on what could be making it point to 127 ranges?

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Eastside75 on Friday, October 17, 2025 20:45:38
    Re: SMTP Relay Question
    By: Eastside75 to All on Fri Oct 17 2025 02:56 pm

    Error 10061 connecting to SMTP server: 127.0.0.1

    you know that's local loopback addres, right?

    I dont have anything on my system pointing to any address in the 127
    range. my system is based on 192. I have even looked in ini files
    for a reference to 127 and there is nothing there.

    My router has the relevant ports routed to my board including
    SMTP, POP, TLS, Submission etc.

    Any ideas on what could be making it point to 127 ranges?


    i saw things get screwed up with that after taking out av software that
    really messed with the internal network settings. just go in there (sbbsctrl various server settings)
    and make things are setup correctly. post screenshots of your settings
    if you have questions.
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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Eastside75 on Saturday, October 18, 2025 13:12:18
    Re: SMTP Relay Question
    By: Eastside75 to All on Fri Oct 17 2025 02:56 pm

    When I first started the board a few months ago, i included the relay through DM offers. Nothing has changed in my setup, still have mail.synchro.net and credentials set as my QWK info. But I had a user send me Email today i am getting error messages in my mail server window.

    Error 10061 connecting to SMTP server: 127.0.0.1

    That's your loopback (aka "localhost") address.

    I dont have anything on my system pointing to any address in the 127 range. my system is based on 192. I have even looked in ini files for a reference to 127 and there is nothing there.

    My router has the relevant ports routed to my board including SMTP, POP, TLS, Submission etc.

    Any ideas on what could be making it point to 127 ranges?

    Maybe mail.synchro.net is resolving to that address for you? I had an Internet outage for about 6 hours last night, maybe it's related.
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  • From Eastside75@VERT/THUNDER to Digital Man on Saturday, October 18, 2025 20:41:07
    Re: SMTP Relay Question
    By: Digital Man to Eastside75 on Sat Oct 18 2025 01:12 pm

    Maybe mail.synchro.net is resolving to that address for you? I had an Internet outage for about 6 hours last night, maybe it's related.
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    That makes perfect sense.

    I was experience quite a few annomalies that day including dyndns failing as well as issues with binkp polls not resolving. I also think ATT was having DNS issues which just makes everything come into the light.

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  • From Marco Moock@VERT to alt.bbs.synchronet on Monday, October 20, 2025 17:38:43
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    On 18.10.2025 20:41 Uhr Eastside75 wrote:

    I was experience quite a few annomalies that day including dyndns
    failing as well as issues with binkp polls not resolving. I also
    think ATT was having DNS issues which just makes everything come into
    the light.

    You can use dig with +trace to check what is going on. Also test all
    your resolvers to find the possible issue.
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