From: "dingo" 

$ Lotek Nate mentioned . .
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> And I should have memntioned that the email works locally. I can write
> email while logged in to the BBS locally and it will show up in my
> Yahoo.com email account a few minutes later.  And when I reply I'll
> get it on the BBS.

and i think all of your issues stem from using your external dns name from
internal access. in my own network that is NAT, i use a split-horizon DNS
server that answers internal addresses like 10.0.1.10 for external-facing DNS
servers that answer 62.67.2.3 or whatever to the world.

you can solve it with a simple HOSTS file hack, for 90% of applications,
windows doesn't have a libresolv service, and synchronet maybe does even its
own thing. /etc/hosts or hosts.txt files were the original internet dns, and
windows still honors the ability to inject your own static entries -- mind you
theres no cname, ptr, a records, etc.

your dyndns doesn't help matters a whole lot -- are you using this service
because you have a dynamic IP, because you don't own a domain, or because you
can't wire your domain to your static IP?

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