Re: [gentoo-user] [obscenely OT] A good SMTP server?

[J. Roeleveld]

On Tuesday 07 July 2009 19:49:46 brullo nulla wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Neil Bothwick<neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> > On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 15:56:33 +0100, brullo nulla wrote:
> >> Since when I live in UK, I have troubles with my SMTP servers. It
> >> seems that everyone has the "nice" habit of changing my header/sender.
> >> At least:
> >> - The Virginmedia one changes the sender with its own mail address
> >> - The Gmail one does the same.
> >
> > Virgin and Google are not everyone, no matter how hard they try to be.
>
> I know, but they are the two from which I know I can get an SMTP
> service: one because is my provider, the other because I have several
> gmail accounts.
>
> Yet, I agree that "everyone" is an exaggeration due to poor sampling.
> But when I was in Italy, no ISP SMTP dared to mess with my email
> fields.
>
> Where are the good ones?
>
> thanks!

Hi,

Not sure if this will help, but when I was living in the UK, I used "adsl24" 
for my internet connection. Before that, I used ntl (taken over by virgin...)

I have always been using my own SMTP server, using the ISP-SMTP server as the 
relay-host.

Not sure if virgin changed the settings after taking over NTL, but with them, 
my 'from' address was never changed. Would be difficult as I would not actually 
log-in to their SMTP server.
Maybe setting up your local SMTP-server using the virgin one as a relay might 
solve your issue?

FYI: I use postfix for this and have the following in the "main.cf" file:
--
relayhost = [<SMTP of my ISP>]
--

Hope this helps,

Joost

PS. I am not in any way affiliated with adsl24, but they are quite cheap and are 
clued up about Linux