Michael Lake wrote:
I have a gmail account but I rarely use it. I get all my mail in via fetchmail and read it with mutt and then I want to reply to something from mutt by just hitting reply. Copying from mutt into any other email system is a pain and I shouldn't be doing silly things like that. I need to do some work and get it setup correctly.
I meant I have used gmail's SMTP server to send from an email client on a laptop before, the laptop connecting to the internet with different internet connections depending on the country at the time. The from address was not gmail's - I can't specifically remember now but I think gmail may have added an extra header to indicate that it was sent via gmail. No copying and pasting or anything. Download the mail from your domain's mailbox, read it with whatever you want, reply and send it via gmail's servers (from memory it was an authenticated, encrypted connection to a non-standard SMTP port).
The user I set this up for was moving around a number of countries, and hence internet providers with different SMTP requirements. Most ISP's were like the bigpond situation you are facing, forcing the from to be the ISP's provided email address. Also, there aren't that many ISP's worth using who allow usage of their SMTP servers from outside their own network anyway. I also couldn't have the user reconfiguring their SMTP server settings whenever they changed ISP/country anyway. MailHop Outbound saved the day at first, then gmail filled the gap.
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