You can use any SMTP server and "From" any email you like as long as you include "MailFrom: [email protected]" in the email header. For example if you are using diesel it would be [email protected] if you don't have a dedicated IP or [email protected] if you do have a dedicated IP. The MailFrom needs to be the server and email account that originated the email and whose DNS can be resolved. This is how a consulting firm can send out mail on behalf of their clients with the "from" being your client without being flagged as spam. The MailFrom is only in the header and is not normally viewed by an email client. In short the "from" can be any email address as long as the MailFrom points back to the originating server's IP. I send out emails daily that are "From" my local email but "MailFrom" diesel and get a respectable spam score(slightly below zero) on the scale of 10 means it's spam.
Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: use-livecode [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alex Tweedly Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 9:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: URGENT: emails being rejected On 22/03/2016 17:14, Mark Wieder wrote: > > A couple of things: > > 1. If you're using the on-rev smtp server to send emails, STOP THAT > right now. Configure your email client to send email using the smtp > server of your isp. You don't need to change the pop server, just the > outgoing one. > > 2. See point #1. > Mark, why? what's wrong with sending email from on-rev (or any other hosting provider) ? Intuitively, that seems like the right way to do it - my email claims to come from "[email protected]" - surely it's a good thing that it originates on the machine that DNS resolves for 'tweedly.net'. In fact, if I send that email instead from my DSL provider then doesn't it become indistinguishable from any spammer's email which has my email address in the 'from' line, but comes from a machine with no connection to 'tweedly.net' ? And, practically, how do I do that ? Most days I use 3 different ISPs (home, office, neighbour's) - would I need to reconfig my email client each time ? (or, to put it another way - what am I missing ? :-) Thanks Alex. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
