Matt Mossholder on 20 Sep 2007 19:10:57 -0000 |
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:01:33 -0400, Paul L. Snyder <plsnyder@drexel.edu> wrote: > I'm having problems with mail delivery, and I suspect that SPF is > the culprit. For the domain in question, I send mail in two ways: > > * Using mutt from my home network > * Using a web client at my mail host > > On my home network, mutt sends the message to a local Postfix > installation which relays the mail to the SMTP server at my mail > host. > > Mail sent via the web interface works fine; mail sent from my home > network is not received by some addresses. I have an SPF record > for the domain specifying my mail host's MX. I would really not > rather not publish the addresses of my home network in the SPF > record if I can avoid it. Am I diagnosing this problem correctly? > > Would it be better to configure mutt to use a dumb MSA that > directly hands off the mail to the MX rather than using a local > MTA? My eventual goal is to be able to send messages via > either the SMTP host for my own domains or via Drexel's MX > depending on the sending address. (Also, I'd like my messages to > be accepted as authentic rather than rejected as spoofed.) > > Any thoughts appreciated. > > pls -- Paul, You probably need to rewrite the message headers, so that the external systems think all the mail originated at the MX server... --Matt ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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