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Topic: Request: Use my own SMTP server

Can Postfix route mail based on the envelope sender?

If not then it’s not hard to make an local mail queue in a database and then have a daemon or two running to do the actual sending (on our website yellowbot.com we actually do this to better control where mails gets sent from no matter which program on which server generates them).

I’m sure there are SMTP libraries for Ruby supporting TLS/SASL/etc – and if not then it’ll just be a few hundred lines of Perl to do it. :-)

Topic: Request: Use my own SMTP server

Hi Peter,

Your response didn’t address Mike’s concerns about routing the mail through a company server to be appropriately SPF/DKIM/DomainKeys tagged…

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Topic: Request: Use my own SMTP server

I’m not a Mailroom user yet but this question is central to my decision to adopt Mailroom or not. On the surface Mailroom appears to be exactly what I need as I’m sending over a thousand emails a month now and, frankly, it’s driving us nuts. However, if outgoing email won’t be from my own domain, it could be a deal-breaker.

Is there a way that can be done?

Jimmie

Topic: Request: Use my own SMTP server

Hi there,

It would be great if we could set up mailroom to send messages using our own mail server (by specifying server name, port, username, password, and authentication method). Why? Three reasons:

1) We've set up our mail server so that we minimize the chances of being tagged as spam (SPF DNS records, etc).

2) We use GMail for Domains and save all history as a "backup".

3) We get some additional safety because our outgoing mail is scanned for viruses, etc.

Item #2 is the biggest one… right now we can use MailRoom to work very nicely with GMail, but our outgoing mail isn’t saved on the GMail side in the conversation.

Thanks!

—Mike