On 29/12/2020 15:12, mick wrote:
On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 14:07:24 +0000 steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk allegedly wrote:
Do any of the people you buy services from have an email smarthost you can use?
My domestic ISP (Plusnet) may have a relay host (or so it would appear from the support forum discussions between customers, even though they don't advertise it) but that would mean me tying myself to their infrastructure when I may not stay as their customer in future. And it might also mean that I would have to move my mail server onto my internal network when I already have a good, fully functional server on the wider internet.
Perhaps, perhaps not. I get that you might move, but if they have a service, perhaps you could use it. You may be able to access it without moving your server onto their network. If I understand correctly, my ISP lets me send via their smarthost simply by being directly connected to their network. However, their current published setup (IIRC) mandates sending a username and password before connecting to their server. Presumably if I did this, I could access their server from an IP address outside their network. YMMV on Plusnet.
[This became Un-Quoted somehow] (Now just checked and I can send to ntlworld. Hooray for common sense.)
YAY!
As a last resort, which I'm sure you won't want to do, but I believe that you can send via GMAIL. You'd have to set it up for each of the email addresses you want it to send from.
No - I won't go there.
Not surprised :-)
I am still exploring the paid for third party relay mechanisms though - they may yet be necessary.
Would be interested if you post your results, just in case my ISP decides change config or ban email servers! :-)
Steve