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Configuring Sendmail to relay through Gmail SMTP
Sending email directly from the MTA (mail transfer agent) on one’s server is now considered to be faux pas. Unless you’ve got that machine configured within DNS (MX record, reverse lookup, etc), it’d likely fail most basic spam checks at the destination mail server. The complexity of the configuration increases if you’ve got the need to masquerade emails from multiple domains. (more…)
Filed under: cli-fu — Tags: email, google, hosting, masquerade, smtp — appgirl @ 12:41 pmComments (2)
mutt: changing sender mail address on the fly
Had a need today to adjust the sender email address for a notification script. Since the script uses mutt to send the emails, that change was fairly straight-forward. Instead of modifying .muttrc, simply export the EMAIL environmental variable. (more…)
Filed under: cli-fu — Tags: email, mutt, tips — appgirl @ 7:19 amComments (1)
Load Balancing Email
Here’s a different approach on using DNS to distribute users across multiple email servers. Load Balancing Email
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