Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp & at&t woes

["John Blinka" <john.blinka@gmail.com>]

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On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>wrote:

>
> On 5 Dec 2008, at 03:12, John Blinka wrote:
>
>> ...
>> I've run out of patience with this and am
>> now relaying my mail to smtp.gmail.com via ssmtp.  That worked
>> immediately without any of the at&t pain. ...
>>
>
> That will always change your "from: " email address to your @gmail one. If
> you own my.cool.domain.com then you can't send email with a "from: "
> address within that domain.



That's  what I want to happen, so it's fine.


>
>
> BT in the UK do this with Yahoo!, too. You have to login to the Yahoo!
> webmail for the account, go into "options" (I think it's under "other
> accounts") and add your other email addresses. You'll be able to use them as
> your "from: " addresses with the Yahoo SMTP server once you've clicked on
> the links in the emails they send you.


AT&T's  yahoo interface has an "options" menu, and I've explored it
extensively, but
I haven't found such a place to add "from" addresses.  Mysteriously (to me
at least), once
I gave up on AT&T's smtp server and set my system up to relay through gmail,
my
nightly amanda jobs successfully sent their email reports to my
att.netemail account.
(I'd forgotten to change the email reporting address from att.net to
gmail.com in my
amanda.conf files.)  So, I guess at&t/yahoo regard gmail as a legitimate
source of email.

John

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