Subj : Re: Foreign Address question
To   : Digital Man
From : Gamgee
Date : Thu Jan 29 2026 10:03 pm

-=> Digital Man wrote to Gamgee <=-

 >  > When I send any fidonet mail, I get this "Foreign address" entry in my
 >  > sbbsecho.log. I know it must be a setting of mine, but I can't figure it
 >  > out, can some one point me in the right direction?
 >
 >  > 2026-01-29 10:29:38 /sbbs/fido/netmail/4.msg RickV (618:200/12) To:
 >  > areafix (618:200/1) Attr: 0109 (PRIVATE, SENT, LOCAL) Foreign address
 >  > 2026-01-29 10:29:38 /sbbs/fido/netmail/7.msg RickV (21:1/206) To: sysop
 >  > (21:1/100) Attr: 0109 (PRIVATE, SENT, LOCAL) Foreign address
 >  > 2026-01-29 10:29:38 /sbbs/fido/netmail/8.msg RickV (46:10/115) To: sysop
 >  > (46:1/156) Attr: 0109 (PRIVATE, SENT, LOCAL) Foreign address
 >  > 2026-01-29 10:29:38 /sbbs/fido/netmail/9.msg RickV (46:10/115) To: sysop
 >  > (46:1/156) Attr: 0109 (PRIVATE, SENT, LOCAL) Foreign address
 >
 >  DM> Looks normal, except "SENT" netmail is normally (by default) deleted by
 >  DM> SBBSecho. Sounds like you might have echocfg->NetMail->Delete Processed
 >  DM> NetMail set to "No".
 >
 > DM, but what about the "Foreign address" part?  What does that actually
 > mean?

 DM> It means it's addressed to a foreign node (not you).

Ahhh OK.

 > I am seeing this too and don't recall it in the past.  I pay pretty
 > close attention to FTN logs.

 DM> It's not a new message. It's not an error message either. It just means
 DM> you're not deleting your sent netmail. <shrug>

Hmmm OK, yes...  Somehow I haven't noticed that before.  Thanks for the 
info!




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