Hi Richard,

On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 04:19 AM PDT, Richard Z wrote:
RZ> On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 09:58:06PM -0700, Mun wrote:
RZ> > Hi Ian,
RZ> > 
RZ> > On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 06:15 PM PDT, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
RZ> 
RZ> > IZ> Did you have a good reason to bypass Google servers?  If not, using
RZ> > IZ> gmail as a relay would likely work around this.
RZ> > 
RZ> > Not really.  I have multiple e-mail accounts that I process from a
RZ> > single system and so I tried to spoof the "from:" accordingly.
RZ>  
RZ> does not work, the worst very often you don't even get an error message
RZ> but your email lands in spam or gets deleted without trace.

Good point.

RZ> > IZ> Exim can be configured to conditionally relay some messages depending 
on
RZ> > IZ> foo.  Other MTAs probably can, too.
RZ> > 
RZ> > I'm using postfix; I'll have to look into that capability.
RZ> 
RZ> it works with postfix but I found it so complicated and brittle that 
RZ> I switched to esmtp where it is very easy. Many other like msmtp make 
RZ> it easy to use multiple accounts.

Now that I have postfix working, I'm hesitant to switch to a different
MTA.  But switching to esmtp/msmtp/etc does sound compelling in order to
solve this problem.

Thanks,

-- 
Mun

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