I'm interested in creating aliases to use on my
board, so I can use them rather than full addresses
of those I email through the bbs.

My understanding was that one do something like

myalias myemail@mydomain.com

in the alias.cfg file

I've done this, and restarted the mail server. But get
error messages when I try to send to myalias@toolazy.ddns.net

Are there other options I have to turn on ?

I have enabled "Receive by Sysop Aliases" .

I get unknown user if I try to email to the aliases on
the bbs via netmail/internet, or through proton mail.

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Re: alias.cfg
By: Amessyroom to All on Sun Jul 14 2024 04:28 pm

I'm interested in creating aliases to use on my
board, so I can use them rather than full addresses
of those I email through the bbs.

No, the alias.cfg file is used for receiving email via SMTP, not "through the BBS". It's documented here:
https://wiki.synchro.net/config:alias.cfg

My understanding was that one do something like

myalias myemail@mydomain.com

in the alias.cfg file

I've done this, and restarted the mail server.

Changes to the alias.cfg file do not require a restart of the mail server.

But get
error messages when I try to send to myalias@toolazy.ddns.net

Based on what you described, if your SMTP mail server receive an email for myalias@toolazy.ddns.net (assuming "toolazy.ddns.net" was set in SCFG->Networks->Internet->Address), then the mail served would receive the message successfully and then *relay* that message to myemail@mydomain.com.

Are there other options I have to turn on ?

I have enabled "Receive by Sysop Aliases" .

That option is unrelated.

I get unknown user if I try to email to the aliases on
the bbs via netmail/internet, or through proton mail.

The alias.cfg file is only used by the mail server for email messages received via SMTP[S].
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Re: alias.cfg
By: Digital Man to Amessyroom on Mon Jul 15 2024 07:18 pm

Re: alias.cfg
By: Amessyroom to All on Sun Jul 14 2024 04:28 pm

I'm interested in creating aliases to use on my
board, so I can use them rather than full addresses
of those I email through the bbs.

No, the alias.cfg file is used for receiving email via SMTP, not "through th BBS". It's documented here:
https://wiki.synchro.net/config:alias.cfg

Would sending netmail from bbs not use smtp ? If not I have attempted
to send mail from email client to alias and it is also failing.

I read that page before attempting to setup an alias

My understanding was that one do something like

myalias myemail@mydomain.com

in the alias.cfg file

Alias entry:
errolhome errol@askerrol.org

Based on what you described, if your SMTP mail server receive an email for myalias@toolazy.ddns.net (assuming "toolazy.ddns.net" was set in SCFG->Networks->Internet->Address), then the mail served would receive the message successfully and then *relay* that message to myemail@mydomain.com.

toolazy.ddns.net is listed in the above configuration option.

The alias.cfg file is only used by the mail server for email messages receiv via SMTP[S].

Here is the logged error when the alias errolhome is used from email client
to defined alias in alias.cfg

mail to sysop@toolazy.ddns.net works without issue, and is delivered to the account amessyroom (#1) on the bbs.

[sbbs@vmi1943160 ctrl]$ sudo grep errolhome /var/log/messages
Jul 14 16:27:42 vmi1943160 synchronet[62112]: mail 0136 SMTPS [185.70.43.17] !UNKNOWN USER-RECIPIENT: '<errolhome@toolazy.ddns.net>'
Jul 14 17:45:07 vmi1943160 synchronet[69189]: term Node 1 <Amessyroom> sent Internet Mail to errolhome@toolazy.ddns.net
Jul 14 17:45:09 vmi1943160 synchronet[69189]: mail 0000 SEND Message #1011 (49 of 49) from 'Amessyroom' #1 to 'errolhome' <errolhome@toolazy.ddns.net>
Jul 14 17:45:09 vmi1943160 synchronet[69189]: mail 0047 SMTPS [127.0.0.1] !UNKNOWN USER-RECIPIENT: '<errolhome@toolazy.ddns.net>'
Jul 14 17:45:09 vmi1943160 synchronet[69189]: mail 0046 SEND/TLS !INVALID RESPONSE: '550 Unknown User: <errolhome@toolazy.ddns.net>' Expected: '25'
Jul 14 17:45:09 vmi1943160 synchronet[69189]: mail 0046 SEND !Delivery attempt #1 FAILED (127.0.0.1 replied with: "550 Unknown User: <errolhome@toolazy.ddns.net>" instead of the expected reply: "25* ...") for message #1011 from Amessyroom to errolhome@toolazy.ddns.net
Jul 16 05:18:39 vmi1943160 synchronet[69189]: mail 0048 SMTPS [185.70.40.22] !UNKNOWN USER-RECIPIENT: '<errolhome@toolazy.ddns.net>'

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Re: alias.cfg
By: Digital Man to Amessyroom on Mon Jul 15 2024 07:18 pm

Re: alias.cfg
By: Amessyroom to All on Sun Jul 14 2024 04:28 pm

The alias.cfg file is only used by the mail server for email messages receiv via SMTP[S].

Further testing shows, aliases defined to go to a user number (i.e. 1) work.

Alias to email address , fail.

Alias to sub:<internal_code> of message area fail.

errolhome errol@askerrol.org
notice sub:LOCAL-NOTICES
e 1
amr 1

Is there anything else, I can try and collect to determine why
this isn't working as designed.

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Re: alias.cfg
By: Amessyroom to Digital Man on Tue Jul 16 2024 06:06 am

Re: alias.cfg

errolhome errol@askerrol.org
notice sub:LOCAL-NOTICES
e 1
amr 1

Tried wildcard
* 1

and emails came through as expected for undefined user to sysop (#1)

So not sure, if I have something in my alias.cfg confusing the parsing;
or why the non-userid options are not working for me.

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Re: alias.cfg
By: Amessyroom to Digital Man on Tue Jul 16 2024 05:53 am

Re: alias.cfg
By: Digital Man to Amessyroom on Mon Jul 15 2024 07:18 pm

Re: alias.cfg
By: Amessyroom to All on Sun Jul 14 2024 04:28 pm

I'm interested in creating aliases to use on my
board, so I can use them rather than full addresses
of those I email through the bbs.

No, the alias.cfg file is used for receiving email via SMTP, not "through th BBS". It's documented here:
https://wiki.synchro.net/config:alias.cfg

Would sending netmail from bbs not use smtp ?

If you send Internet email/netmail from the BBS, that would use the mail server's sendmail thread to deliver via SMTP to *another* mail server, not yours (unless you're mail-serving for multiple domains, but I doubt that).

If not I have attempted
to send mail from email client to alias and it is also failing.

I read that page before attempting to setup an alias

My understanding was that one do something like

myalias myemail@mydomain.com

in the alias.cfg file

Alias entry:
errolhome errol@askerrol.org

Based on what you described, if your SMTP mail server receive an email for myalias@toolazy.ddns.net (assuming "toolazy.ddns.net" was set in SCFG->Networks->Internet->Address), then the mail served would receive the message successfully and then *relay* that message to myemail@mydomain.com.

toolazy.ddns.net is listed in the above configuration option.

Then put in the alias.cfg file:

errohome@toolazy.ddns.net errol@askerrol.org
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Re: alias.cfg
By: Digital Man to Amessyroom on Tue Jul 16 2024 12:30 pm

Alias entry:
errolhome errol@askerrol.org

Based on what you described, if your SMTP mail server receive an email for
myalias@toolazy.ddns.net (assuming "toolazy.ddns.net" was set in

SCFG->Networks->Internet->> Address), then the mail served would receive

the message successfully and then *relay* that message to
myemail@mydomain.com.

toolazy.ddns.net is listed in the above configuration option.

Then put in the alias.cfg file:

errohome@toolazy.ddns.net errol@askerrol.org

This did not work for me either :-( So I don't understand
what I'm doing wrong.

I was using
myalias user@domain.com

Because of the comments at the top of the example
alias.cfg lists "user" has a possible option.

Appreciated the feedback, but not sure what else to try. If
you have another suggestion please share and I will test again.

Amessyroom

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Re: alias.cfg
By: Amessyroom to Digital Man on Tue Jul 16 2024 10:56 pm

Re: alias.cfg
By: Digital Man to Amessyroom on Tue Jul 16 2024 12:30 pm

Alias entry:
errolhome errol@askerrol.org

Based on what you described, if your SMTP mail server receive an email for
myalias@toolazy.ddns.net (assuming "toolazy.ddns.net" was set in

SCFG->Networks->Internet->> Address), then the mail served would receive

the message successfully and then *relay* that message to
myemail@mydomain.com.

toolazy.ddns.net is listed in the above configuration option.

Then put in the alias.cfg file:

errohome@toolazy.ddns.net errol@askerrol.org

This did not work for me either :-( So I don't understand
what I'm doing wrong.

I was using
myalias user@domain.com

Because of the comments at the top of the example
alias.cfg lists "user" has a possible option.

If the second parameter has an '@', then the first parameter must also have an '@'. Like I showed in my example.
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