So what you are saying is that with the -h option I could spam people and
they wouldnt know where it came from unless they traced the IP back.. Kind
of scary thought....
Will Hall
MCP-WS-Server/CNA/I-Net+
219.583.6860
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----- Original Message -----
From: Daniel Donnelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Can IMail1.exe send E-mail from another domain?
> Scott,
>
> I was able to make it 'work' by including the -h hostname parameter (not
in
> the manual!). When I used '-h ipswitch.com' as another parameter, the
> message appeared to come from a user on that host (the reply address was
> that which I specified, ie, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and from that 'server'
> (although the IP shown was my IMail computer, not the mailserver for
> ipswitch.com). The KB tell you how to use it (and says it is for ipless
> domains). Not sure that it will do exactly what you want, but worth a try.
>
> Could be it worked because 'ipswitch.com' is a valid Host Alias for
another
> computer on my network. But looking more carefully at the headers, that
does
> not appear to be the reason. All header stuff looks the same, except now
> 'ipswitch.com' is replacing the 'real hostname' of my computer. The IP in
> the header could cause some delivery problems as the receiving server
could
> check the IP, name and do a reverse lookup to confirm the sending host.
>
> Daniel Donnelly
> Ipswitch Technical Support
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>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 12:11 PM
> Subject: [IMail Forum] Can IMail1.exe send E-mail from another domain?
>
>
> > Does anyone know if it is possible to use IMAIL1.EXE and have it have a
> return address that doesn't use one of the local domains?
> >
> > I'm trying to have a computer send E-mail from one domain
> ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]"), which may or may not be sent to someone else
> @mydomain.com. In order to accomplish this, I either need to get
IMAIL1.EXE
> to send E-mail using "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as the return address (which
it
> doesn't seem to want to do, if mydomain.com isn't set up), or have
> mydomain.com get forwarded to the mail server for mydomain.com (since this
> machine isn't hosting mydomain.com).
> >
> > Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> > -Scott
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> >
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