Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gmail smtp overwrites the sender

[Mick]

On Monday 12 Mar 2012 18:34:37 Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2012-03-12, Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> > On 12 March 2012, at 14:59, felix@×××××××.com wrote:
> >> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 02:22:34PM +0100, Andr??s Cs??nyi wrote:
> >>> On 11 March 2012 13:49, Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> >>>> On 10 March 2012, at 20:56, Andr??s Cs??nyi wrote:
> >>>>> ??? I would like to ask some help! I would like to use gmail smtp to
> >>>>> send my email from my domain which is sayusi.hu, and the email
> >>>>> address is sayusi.ando@××××××.hu. Unfortunately, gmail smtp always
> >>>>> overwrite the sender email address. ??? ??Do you know any solution
> >>>>> for this?
> >>>>
> >>>> Use a different SMTP server.
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't believe there's any alternative.
> >>>>
> >>>> Have you considered Postfix?
> >>>
> >>> What do you mean when you say Postfix?
> >>
> >> I think Stroller may have confused gee-mail and queue-mail.  The only
> >> reason I looked at this thread was becaue 'g' and 'q' do look similar,
> >> and I thought it might be about qmail.  qmail is a mailer program,
> >> like Postfix, sendmail, and so on, whereas gmail is a mail domain,
> >> like yahoo, hotmail, etc.
> >
> > No, I simply meant that if you use Postfix you don't have to use
> > anyone else's SMTP server,
>
> If you've got a static IP address, a domain, an MX record, and
> whatever other requirements a lot of sites are now placing upon
> senders of mail.
>
> I used to use my own SMTP server, 10 years ago it worked fine.  More
> recently, too many destinations wouldn't accept mail from me -- so I
> had to start using mail relays.

Perhaps your mail address was blacklisted?  Many ISPs IP address blocks are 
blacklisted these days.  Also some ISPs are blocking ports (like 25 and 2525) 
to minimise spam sent out of compromised boxen.  They would typically allow 
you to relay through their mailservers though.
-- 
Regards,
Mick