Hello everybody!

For those of you running SBBS and using Golded, what is your setup to read Synchronet E-mail and Fidonet netmail? I have 2 seperate setting, one for E-mail (smb) and the other for netmail (Opus).

AREADEF Syncmail "Synchronet E-Mail" N Net SMB z:\sbbs\data\mail . (Net Pvt) "Live Wire BBS"

AREADEF NETMAIL "FTN Netmail" N Net OPUS z:\sbbs\fido\netmail . (Net Pvt) "Live Wire BBS"


Thanks,
Sabre



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Hey Sabre!

On Tue, 04 Nov 2025 12:34:46 -0600, you wrote:

Hello everybody!

For those of you running SBBS and using Golded, what is your setup to
read Synchronet E-mail and Fidonet netmail? I have 2 seperate setting,
one for E-mail (smb) and the other for netmail (Opus).

AREADEF Syncmail "Synchronet E-Mail" N Net SMB
z:\sbbs\data\mail . (Net Pvt) "Live Wire BBS"

This one by itself should read both email and Fidonet netmail, since it is all stored in the mail base.

* However, don't try to write anything there, as you risk corrupting your mail base.

AREADEF NETMAIL "FTN Netmail" N Net OPUS z:\sbbs\fido\netmail . (Net Pvt) "Live Wire BBS"

I'm guessing this one does nothing for you. Synchronet's "netmail" is stored in the same base as email (/sbbs/data/mail.*). This is why you shouldn't write to it, because Golded doesn't know the difference between what is BBS email, POP/SMTP email, or netmail.

Regards,
Nick

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Hello Accession!

25 Jun 71 15:43, you wrote to me:

Hey Sabre!

On Tue, 04 Nov 2025 12:34:46 -0600, you wrote:

Hello everybody!

For those of you running SBBS and using Golded, what is your setup
to read Synchronet E-mail and Fidonet netmail? I have 2 seperate
setting, one for E-mail (smb) and the other for netmail (Opus).

AREADEF Syncmail "Synchronet E-Mail" N Net SMB
z:\sbbs\data\mail . (Net Pvt) "Live Wire BBS"

This one by itself should read both email and Fidonet netmail, since
it is all stored in the mail base.

* However, don't try to write anything there, as you risk corrupting
your mail base.

AREADEF NETMAIL "FTN Netmail" N Net OPUS
z:\sbbs\fido\netmail . (Net Pvt) "Live Wire BBS"

I'm guessing this one does nothing for you. Synchronet's "netmail" is stored in the same base as email (/sbbs/data/mail.*). This is why you shouldn't write to it, because Golded doesn't know the difference
between what is BBS email, POP/SMTP email, or netmail.

Regards,
Nick

ok, I see now. I do use the second netmail with GoldED, SBBS see's it and sendsout that mail. But from a GoldED point, I can't use the SMB E-mail to write netmail. So really GoldED can't use E-mail/Netmail to write outbound mail.

Thanks,
Sabre


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Hey Sabre!

On Wed, 05 Nov 2025 08:40:12 -0600, you wrote:

AREADEF Syncmail "Synchronet E-Mail" N Net SMB
z:\sbbs\data\mail . (Net Pvt) "Live Wire BBS"

AREADEF NETMAIL "FTN Netmail" N Net OPUS
z:\sbbs\fido\netmail . (Net Pvt) "Live Wire BBS"

ok, I see now. I do use the second netmail with GoldED, SBBS see's it
and sendsout that mail. But from a GoldED point, I can't use the SMB
E-mail to write netmail. So really GoldED can't use E-mail/Netmail to
write outbound mail.

So what you're saying is, writing a new netmail in the "FTN Netmail" area works? If that's true, I'm guessing you don't /receive/ netmail there, as it goes in the "Synchronet E-Mail" area instead?

If that is the case, I suppose maybe when you receive a netmail in "Synchronet E-Mail", maybe you could reply to it (using ALT-N so you can choose a different area to write to) in the "FTN Netmail" area.. Hmm..

Also, before I forget, you can't use 'smbutil' to pack/renumber your message bases when using Golded, either. This is pretty common/standard with any external message reader that doesn't share message/newscan pointers, though. You'll end up with something like *123048979 new messages in each area 'smbutil' renumbers, and Golded won't know where you left off, so it'll start back at the first message.

Regards,
Nick

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Re: GoldED and Synchronet Question
By: Accession to Sabre on Wed Nov 05 2025 04:57 pm

Also, before I forget, you can't use 'smbutil' to pack/renumber your message bases when using Golded, either. This is pretty common/standard with any external message reader that doesn't share message/newscan pointers, though. You'll end up with something like *123048979 new messages in each area 'smbutil' renumbers, and Golded won't know where you left off, so it'll start back at the first message.

Packing and renumbering are 2 different things. Packing should have no effect on Golded. And a sysop shouldn't renumber any message base without a very good reason.
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