At 09:00 AM 5/6/2003, you wrote:
> The "preferred" solution is to have everyone use their own ISP for outbound > SMTP. Obviously that's not always practical or desirable from a user > point of view, so there are "workarounds" like POP-authenticated relaying, > etc., which lead to an increased chance your server could be abused by > spammers. > > - -- > Bruce Timberlake Bruce, Thanks for clearing it up. I usually read a lot to make sure which way is best. we do have the situation that our users want to use our servers to send mail, instead of their isp. They feel it is a lot more professional to send from businessname.com instead of aol, yahoo, mindspring, etc. Thank you Tom
You can use an ISP's mail server and still use your "businessname.com" You set the reply address to "user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" You set the user "name" NOT "login" to their actual name.This will not show the ISP's name anywhere except deeper in the headers than most look. It will look as though the email was sent from the "user" at "businessname.com" and any return email will go there. It will be that it is being SENT through the ISP's mail server. I don't know if it is still so, but GTE used to require that anyone logged on to them had to send mail via their server. I do know that MSN is that way today. If you use either outlook express or outlook, you can log in to their smtp server and then into you POP server. Most other email clients won't allow you to log into two places at once.
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