Re: Problems with microsoft mail addresses

On 10/18/22 19:26, William Unruh wrote:
> 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.
Nope. 100% serious.