Ken D'Ambrosio wrote, at 03/04/2009 11:53 AM: > Hi, all. My company has a web server hosted by an external provider. It > sends out e-mail (e.g., in response to web forms), and, occasionally, it > gets bounced and/or eaten up by spam filters. What I'd like to do is > relay mail from the web server through our corporate server, but make it > look as if mail had originated from the corporate server. Any way to do > that?
Yes, you can modify your web applications to use SMTP to submit mail to your corporate server for relaying. In most cases, it is unnecessary to forge or hide any headers; the web server will simply be a submission client, like any number of other clients that are unlikely to be able to send mail directly to an MX without looking spammy. However, this is not without issues, due to the external provider (I wouldn't be so quick to do this on a shared host). It would be helpful to know why you believe this will solve your problem. Have you identified the nature of the bounces? Why do other sites think the messages look spammy? Is there a risk that you will transfer the external server's reputation to your corporate server?
