Re: Problems with microsoft mail addresses

On 2022-10-18, Ellenor Agnes Bjornsdottir <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

I presume this was a joke, or that you have very very few friends or
collegues.