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  • SCFG "Kill NetMail After Sent" = "No" still kills netmail after sendin

    From Keyop Troy@VERT to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Tue Jan 20 14:32:49 2026
    open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/1056

    SCFG "Kill NetMail After Sent" = "No" still kills netmail after sending.

    I've tried the SBBS internal editor, FSEditor and Slyedit all with the same result:

    ```
    2026-01-20 22:21:18 Created NetMail (2.msg) from Keyop Troy (2:250/3) to fred blogs (2:250/3), attr: 0181 (PRIVATE, KILLSENT, LOCAL), subject: test
    2026-01-20 22:24:16 Created NetMail (3.msg) from Keyop Troy (2:250/3) to fred blogs (2:250/3), attr: 0181 (PRIVATE, KILLSENT, LOCAL), subject: test 2
    ```

    KILLSENT should not be set/used.

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  • From Rob Swindell@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Tue Jan 20 16:18:03 2026
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/1056#note_8148

    The SCFG setting controls the "KILLSENT" attribute for the netmail message(s) created in the Synchronet mail base (data/mail) and works as intended. If this setting is set to "No", then the netmail message remain in the Synchronet mail base even after it's been exported for network-sending (e.g. by SBBSecho). You can look at your sent mail (in the Synchronet mail base) and confirm this.

    The log snippet you included is from SBBSecho and it exporting Fido netmail from the Synchronet mail base to FidoNet "stored message" format (*.msg). SBBSecho *always* sets the "KILLSENT" attribute in .msg files it exports. If you want to see the netmail you sent (that wasn't "killed"), look at the Synchronet mail base (e.g. 'K' from the e-mail menu). I'm not clear why a sysop would want to keep both the sent netmail in the mail base *and* in .msg format.

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  • From Keyop Troy@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Tue Jan 20 16:50:42 2026
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/1056#note_8150

    If I go to [E] Read/Send - E-mail, then [K] read/kill mail you have sent, I can't see the netmails I sent earlier.

    I'm assuming (maybe incorrectly) that killsent was refering to keeping netmails in the msg base so that I could see them.

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  • From Rob Swindell@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Tue Jan 20 16:54:17 2026
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/1056#note_8151

    the SCFG setting controls whether the mail in mailbase (msg base) gets the KILLSENT attribute or not. That's correct. You pasted a snippet of the sbbsecho.log file with this issue however. SCFG doesn't control (much) of what SBBSecho does or does not do.

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  • From Rob Swindell@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Tue Jan 20 16:58:05 2026
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/1056#note_8152

    It sounds like the echocfg->NetMail->Delete Netmail option is what were looking for (set it to "No").

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  • From Keyop Troy@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Tue Jan 20 17:00:52 2026
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/1056#note_8153

    Thanks DM - will give this option a try.

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  • From Keyop Troy@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Tue Jan 20 17:17:48 2026
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/1056#note_8154

    Ah yes netmails are now kept in the message base - thanks!

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  • From Keyop Troy@VERT to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Tue Jan 20 17:17:55 2026
    close https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/1056

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