[Novalug] Internet email servers (maybe off topic)

[Basil Baby]

You can masquerade your from ID and even rewrite it.  In postfix it pretty
straight forward.
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-postfix-masquerade-change-email-mail-address.html

But if you are trying it with sendmail (I never tried this one)
http://www.linux4all.net/sendmail_masquerade_outgoing_email_address

Thanks,
Basil


On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Brandon Saxe <brandon20va at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I wish I could do that, but it doesn't seem to work that way. When I set up
> the IIS SMTP relay the way it is currently, it only allows to send email
> from one address.
>
> I have a mailbox set up on the provider with address noreply at domain.com.
> This is also the user name for SMTP-AUTH. When I send emails to this relay,
> the FROM: mail address also has to be noreply at domain.com (same as the
> primary email on the mailbox) or else the auth rejects the mail.
>
> I want to be able to send mail from multiple email addresses such as:
> -noreply at domain.com
> -backupserver at domain.com
> -support at domain.com
> -so on and so forth.
>
> Currently, the only supported address is noreply at domain.com because that
> is the addresss associated to the smtp-auth account. My company's provider
> seems to be pretty lame so far in helping me with this. In fact, they don't
> even support my using this mailbox as a relay account as it is. Of course, I
> only chatted with first level support. If I can't get resolution I'll be
> forced to talk to some management.
>
> Any other thoughts/ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --- On Tue, 10/13/09, Nick Danger <nick at hackermonkey.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Nick Danger <nick at hackermonkey.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Novalug] Internet email servers (maybe off topic)
> > To: novalug at calypso.tux.org
> > Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 8:19 PM
> > On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:56:07 -0700
> > (PDT)
> > Brandon Saxe <brandon20va at yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Are my assumptions correct? Will this work? Is there a
> > better way
> > > (aside from my dumping my provider or hosting mail
> > myself)?
> >
> > Cant you just set up a single host on your lan to be a
> > smart relay?
> > That host would accept the email from all the other hosts
> > on your lan
> > (including those old ones that cant do smtp-auth) then the
> > smart host
> > would send all the mail via smtp-auth through your current
> > provider.
> >
> > How would that work?
> >
> > Nick
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