Re: Life with gmail

From	Chris Newman <mec@npost.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.networking
Subject	Re: Life with gmail
Date	2023-10-22 14:22 +0100
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Message-ID	<5af75ab1c5mec@npost.uk> (permalink)
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In article <slrnuj9qct.ae2.news@stevefryatt.org.uk>,
   Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote:
> On 2023-10-21, Chris Newman <mec@npost.uk> wrote:

> > I still have the georgia.rambler at gmail account but have set that to
> > automatically forward all the mail to my gr domain.

> I'd found one relating to booking jazz bands which looked as if it might
> be connected.

> Either way, though. When an email arrives at your gr at npost account,
> having been forwarded on by Gmail, what happens if you reply to it?
> Do you reply from the npost address, or does Pluto (?) notice that the
> To of the original email was set to an @gmail.com address and then set
> the From of the reply so that it looks as if you're replying from the
> same Gmail account?

> If the latter, then that's your problem. In this era of SPF, you can't
> spoof email accounts like that unless you have NetFetch set to route
> all emails with an @gmail.com From address through Google's SMTP relay
> instead of your Orpheus one.

I made that mistake once when I was in a hurry but that was a single
reply which simply did not get to the recipient.

I've set NetFetch to "Override system default SMTP server" in the main
account, which is one of my domain addresses. I'm doing more tests to see
what happens.

-- 
Chris

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