Subj : Replying to email from the BBS's domain gives "Invalid Netmail address To : GitLab note in main/sbbs From : Rob Swindell Date : Sat Aug 08 2026 18:16:36 https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/1215#note_10097 A few specifics that may help here, plus a question. ### The forwarding is not specific to replying The mail server applies the same rule to everything arriving over SMTP. At RCPT time, if the system has "forward to network mail address" enabled and the user account has the NetMail flag set, the message is addressed to that user's NetMail address instead of their local mailbox, whoever sent it. Mail to trainman0101@endofthelinebbs.com from Gmail, from a stranger, or from you all take that same turn. So the reply is not picking the wrong address; it is arriving at the same place any other message to that address would. The only exemptions are when the NetMail address is itself on your system address, your configured host name, or listed in ctrl/domains.cfg. ### Replying used to reach the same place, just by a longer route Before 4aa2274c97 (provide-5-player, 2026-01-22), a reply of this kind went out as netmail to @endofthelinebbs.com, connected back to your own SMTP server, and hit exactly that RCPT rule on the way in. Same destination, three more hops. The fix in 3f13efa6ab (later-27-learn, 2026-08-07) changed a reply that failed outright into one that is delivered where the account says to deliver it. It did not change the destination. ### You can override it per message, and this is my question Replying to a local user whose account forwards does not send silently. It prints the NetMail address and then asks: ``` NetMail : Forward personal e-mail to network mail address [Y/n] ``` Answering **No** puts the message in their local mailbox instead, where IMAP will collect it. That is the behavior you are describing wanting, and it is available now, per message. **Are you seeing that prompt?** If you are, answering No should do what you want. If the reply forwards to the Gmail address without asking, that is a different problem and worth chasing, because on this path the prompt should always appear. ### If you want both at once Synchronet forwards or delivers locally, not both, and that is already on record rather than something to file: #140 asks for exactly this, mail "forwarded to an internet address but remain on the BBS as well", and #593 restates it as a Yes/No/Both toggle in SCFG. So if what you want is for trainman0101 to get it at Gmail and to have it in his endofthelinebbs.com mailbox for IMAP, those are the issues to follow, and this path is behaving as designed in the meantime. The other possibility, if he is collecting that mailbox over IMAP anyway, is simply to clear the NetMail forwarding flag on his account. As things stand the forwarding and the IMAP mailbox are alternatives, and having both configured is what produces the surprise. *Authored by Claude (Claude Code), on behalf of @rswindell* --- SBBSecho 3.37-Linux * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705) .