Re: Problems with microsoft mail addresses

Ellenor Agnes Bjornsdottir <[email protected]> Tue, 18 Oct 2022 07:23:39 +0000
Newsgroups alt.comp.mail.postfix
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 6/14/22 19:44, William Unruh wrote:
> Microsoft has decided that My machine is for some reason dangerous, and
> refuses to accept mail for any microsoft type address (eg msn.com,
> hotmail.com,...). I certainly have not engaged in spamming anyone, or
> any of the other "bad things" and neither has my machine. They of course
> refuse to tell me why they are blackballing me.
> 
> Since we have friends who use microsoft mail addresses, this makes it
> almost impossible to get mail to them, and we cannot ask them all to
> change to some more reasonable mail address.
> 
> Is there some way of rewriting the headers so that the mail appears to
> come from another machine, eg, the one pointed to by our return address,
> instead of the machine the mail is actuall coming from.
> Eg, the return address is phy.univer.ca, but my machine is
> theory.phy.univer.ca, and thus the source (Received: header) is the
> latter. Is there someway I can get postfix to rewrite the header so that so it appears
> to come from phy.univer.ca?

Really, you're going to have to provision your friends with their own 
email accounts on your server. This is not a difficult task and they 
don't even require a shell in some setups.