On Friday 25 April 2003 12:08 pm, Joe Klemmer wrote: > On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 11:26, Doug B wrote: > > Can you enlighten me on how I can send email from home, through my > > provider at home, that will only show my work email address? I > > want people I have a work relationship with to see only my work > > email address but still be able to do some of my work from home. I > > would also like to know how I can respond to mail-list that I > > subcribe to with one acouunt (like at work) from home. The only way > > I know to handle either situation has resulted in a 'relaying not > > allowed' type of message from my ISP. > > I do this all the time. In fact I have 5 or 6 "from" email > addresses I use that all go through one smtp outbound server. The > key is for the smtp server to allow access from your IP address. > Most ISPs allow you to send with the from address anything you like > as long as the actual envelop info is valid. Now, it does sound like > your ISP might be a bit more draconian in the configuration. What > was the only way you knew? Tell us what you did and that will help to > figure out where to go from there. > Gee... making me think, huh :) It's been so long since I tried to use my isp's smtp server... I was on a windows box and had even less knowledge about how things worked than I do now. I expect I set up all the accounts as the isp suggested... pop.isp.tdl for incoming and smtp.isp.tdl for outgoing. I had several dialup isp's and always used the one that gave me the best through-put at the moment. Seems at different times and different days I got better connections and speeds from different providers. Thinking about it now (man that hurts), I guess I can see why isp-1 wouldn't send mail using the settings I had for isp-2's email address... relaying from another smpt server? Anyway I found a free windows based smtp server, set it up and could email from any personallity to any email address regardless of which isp I was connected through. I guess I could have changed the smtp server for each account depending on the isp I was logged into and acomplish the same thing, but what a hassle since I changed connections so often. When I started playing with linux, I found postfix easy enough to set up so I continued as before, just setting the smtp to my local box on each account. Now that I have a broadband connection and rarely use dialup, I can see that I can set each account to use my broadbands smtp. If I do need to switch to dailup for whatever reason, kmail makes it easy to select the smtp server I want to use. I tested it and all works as well as using my own server, but I did notice something in the headers that could present a problem? Mailing from my broadbands email address to another of my addresses I see a header inserted by the receiving isp: X-Spam-Tests-Failed: None [-4] That looks good. Mailing from an address aother than the one on my broadband isp: X-Spam-Tests-Failed: IPNOTINMX [0] Not so good... I can see where some very strict postmasters might reject it. Mailing from localhost through the broadband isp (which I don't do but was curious about): X-RBL-Warning: HELOBOGUS: Domain localhost.localdomain has no MX or A records. X-RBL-Warning: MAILFROM: Domain localhost.localdomain has no MX or A records. X-RBL-Warning: REVDNS: This E-mail was sent from a MUA/MTA 209.176.51.15 with no reverse DNS entry. X-Spam-Tests-Failed: HELOBOGUS, MAILFROM, IPNOTINMX, REVDNS [9] At least they let it through and gave me headers I can filter on if I want to. Anyway, thanks for making me think... even if it hurts! :) Doug -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
