Subj : email and netmail
To   : Al
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Sep 20 2021 16:43:39

  Re: email and netmail
  By: Al to Digital Man on Mon Sep 20 2021 03:56 pm

 > Hello Digital Man,
 >
 > I have a couple netmail messages for a user here that don't get imported
 > because sbbsecho says the user is unknown, so they are stuck in the netmail
 > directory. They are addressed to a user here on the BBS. sbbsecho.log says..
 >
 > 2021-09-20 15:42:45 /sbbs/fido/netmail/1.msg August Abolins (2:460/256) To:
 > Eri ch B. (1:153/757.2) Unknown user
 > 2021-09-20 15:42:45 /sbbs/fido/netmail/2.msg August Abolins (2:460/256) To:
 > Eri ch B. (1:153/757.2) Unknown user

Are you sure that there's a user named "Eric B." in your Synchronet user base?
 > On the reverse side of this I have seen a couple notifications that this
 > user has sent me an email, but there is no email to be found.

Examine your mail base with the ;mail sysop command or the 'smbutil'.

 > This user Erich B., is a co-sysop here, so his security level is 90 but I
 > don't think that would make a difference. If you would like to have a look
 > at these 1 and 2.msg they are available here..
 >
 > http://trmb.synchro.net/7572_msg.zip
 >
 > Any idea why that would happen or what I can do about it?

Sounds like a name mismatch, even though the latest alias/name matching algorithms (in Synchronet v3.19) are very liberal.
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