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

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

On 2012-03-12, Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 12 March 2012, at 14:59, felix@crowfix.com wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 02:22:34PM +0100, Andr??s Cs??nyi wrote:
>>> On 11 March 2012 13:49, Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 10 March 2012, at 20:56, Andr??s Cs??nyi wrote:
>>>>> ??? 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, and the email address is
>>>>> sayusi.ando@sayusi.hu. Unfortunately, gmail smtp always overwrite the
>>>>> sender email address. ??? ??Do you know any solution
>>>>> for this?
>>>> 
>>>> Use a different SMTP server.
>>>> 
>>>> I don't believe there's any alternative.
>>>> 
>>>> Have you considered Postfix?
>>> 
>>> What do you mean when you say Postfix?
>> 
>> I think Stroller may have confused gee-mail and queue-mail.  The only
>> reason I looked at this thread was becaue 'g' and 'q' do look similar,
>> and I thought it might be about qmail.  qmail is a mailer program,
>> like Postfix, sendmail, and so on, whereas gmail is a mail domain,
>> like yahoo, hotmail, etc.
>
> No, I simply meant that if you use Postfix you don't have to use
> anyone else's SMTP server,

If you've got a static IP address, a domain, an MX record, and
whatever other requirements a lot of sites are now placing upon
senders of mail.

I used to use my own SMTP server, 10 years ago it worked fine.  More
recently, too many destinations wouldn't accept mail from me -- so I
had to start using mail relays.

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