Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gmail smtp overwrites the sender

[Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>]

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On Mar 11, 2012 10:08 PM, "Nikos Chantziaras" <realnc@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/03/12 16:49, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Mar 11, 2012 3:59 AM, "András Csányi" <sayusi.ando@gmail.com
>> <mailto:sayusi.ando@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>  >
>>  > Dear All,
>>  >
>>  > I would like to ask some help! I would like to use gmail smtp to send
>>  > my email from my domain which is sayusi.hu <http://sayusi.hu>, and
>> the email address is
>>  > sayusi.ando@sayusi.hu <mailto:sayusi.ando@sayusi.hu>. Unfortunately,
>>
>> gmail smtp always overwrite the
>>  > sender email address. If I would like to subscribe for a mailing list
>>  > with this email address and the email is sent from my local machine
>>  > the respond always comes to my gmail address which used to
>>  > authenticate.
>>  >
>>  > I have tried to set up my gmail account but doesn't matter what the
>>  > setup is the sender always will be overwrite. Do you know any solution
>>  > for this?
>>  >
>>  > Thanks in advance!
>>  >
>>  > András
>>  >
>>
>> See my email address? It's actually sent from Gmail. BUT, I have my own
>> hosted website (with its own SMTP server).
>>
>> Without your own SMTP server, Gmail will always send your email as
>> "someone@gmail.com <mailto:someone@gmail.com> on behalf of
>> someone@yourdomain.com <mailto:someone@yourdomain.com>".
>
>
> That's also wrong.  I use "From:" addresses that don't have any SMTP
associated with them.  GMail only touches the "Sender:" address, not the
"From:" address.
>
>

Yes, header-wise, the "From:" is not changed.

But, client-side, especially on Thunderbird and Outlook/Outlook Express,
the *display* From: will look like that.

Rgds,

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