gmail smtp relay ain’t no good

Thu, May 8, 2008

update to my previous post on a Postfix setup to route outgoing mail through gmail’s SMTP servers: i haven’t had time to investigate this further, but it seems that gmail automatically changes the From field of the emails relayed through it with the default name and email addressed configured in the gmail account used to authenticate for the outgoing SMTP service. which ain’t good for me, because i want the recipient to see the identity i choose. setting the Reply-To field isn’t enough as i don’t just want the recipients to email me back on a specific address, but also to see my emails as coming from a specific email identity among those i use for life, study, work, etc.

so i just switched back to an SMTP relay on the VPN, and that’s it – i won’t have my outgoing emails stored in gmail. no big deal.