[BNM] Email question

[Jason Bailey]

--- On Tue, 29/4/08, Alastair James <al.james at gmail.com> wrote:
 
> I am building a 'forward this to a friend' feature.
> I.e. you click
> 'send to a friend' and it asks for your and their
> email address and a
> message. We then send the people a message containing a
> link to the
> content you wanted to send and your message.
> 
> I could set the from field of the email as the person who
> sent the
> message, however we are sending it from our own server.
> I.e. if you
> are bob.jones at gmail.com we would be sending a email from
> bob.jones at gmail.com from our own domain. This would be
> great as people
> could hit reply and away they go. However, i guess this is
> a spam
> filter issue? I.e. a message from a sender from another
> domain than
> where the email came from?

Hi
I can't remember the RFC/rule (I'll check if you need it) but some mail systems would reject mail with their domain (e.g. @sussex.ac.uk) unless it came from its own SMTP server(s).

Our mail server wouldn't, say, allow Amazon to send an email to a sussex colleague (@sussex to @sussex) from me using my sussex email.

Not sure if using a from header of your site with a reply-to header might help.

Jas


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