Re: ssmtp question
Richard Reina <[email protected]>
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---- Linux Users Of Northern Illinois \(Chicago\) - Technical Discussion <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Richard Reina <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Thank you very much for the insight. > > > > so you should configure your mail tool to fill in a valid address > >> > >> there. > > > > > > Any idea on how to do that in ssmtp? > > I think what Martin is suggesting is that you make changes in your MUA > (Mail User Agent) like KMail, Thunderbird etc. > I am not using an email client. > >From my experience GMail has allowed me to use From headers completely > different than my "[email protected]" e.g. relay is accepted wherein > >From is my Yahoo! id but SMTP AUTH is my GMail userid/password. > I am using ssmtp to send automated replies from procmail. I would be fine continuing to use gmail accept for the fact that I need the replies to say that they are coming from my work email account. > Most likely the "real" SMTP server at your work is configured > differently. You need to check the relay configuration in the SMTP > server @ work and possibly make changes to allow relay from ssmtp. > Our website is hosted by XO communications. I think that they use Exchange. They have not been too helpful in the past so I don't hold out great hope for them changing things for me. Thanks very much for your reply. If you have any more ideas please let me know. > HTH > -- Arun Khan > -- > Linux Users Of Northern Illinois (Chicago) - Technical Discussion > http://luni.org/mailman/listinfo/luni > -- Richard Reina Rush Logistics, Inc. Watch our 3 minute movie: http://www.rushlogistics.com/movie -- Linux Users Of Northern Illinois (Chicago) - Technical Discussion http://luni.org/mailman/listinfo/luni