Sky BB users

Sky have been outsourcing their email to Google (of all the wanky
places to give it to) over the past year.

This weekend just gone they completed the process and switched off
their own SMTP email servers.

Without telling me (or any other Sky customer I know).

Switching to Googles SMTP server (smtp.tools.sky.com, enable TLS, port
587) works but your email address in the from line is replaced with
your sky.com one.

Bastards.

FERITE.

I'm off to another ISP.

 

This is why I have postfix on my laptop. I've never had a problem
sending mail from various locations and ISPs. Make sure it only listens
on 127.0.0.1 and ensure that sure you have a FQDN. Job done.

They are. All of them.

 

"Sky broadband customers blindsided by SMTP switch-off"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/07/sky_google_mail/

 

prawn scribbled:

I've got postfix on the server.

Turned off the smart host and found out that Sky have blacklisted all
their dynamic IPs.

 

Switters scribbled:

See that article? Thats me that is! (the Richard they mention)

15 minutes of fame!!!

 

Sheesh. Actually, I just did a test send to my gmail addy and their
server bounced it on a reverse dns lookup. Cnuts.

 

I've never checked my sky mail, certainly never set it up.

what's the real issue? you have your own domain, surely it comes with
a mail server?

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I had this from day 1, and it doesn't bother me as I never use sky's
service.

I've been using a regular gmail account to bounce SMTP out for ages, and
Gmail's version supports any domain you like in the headers.

 

Pfft. In the age of user content, having your name and words on a website
means sweet FA.

 

Doesn't have to.. I have a couple of domain names, but only bothered to
have DNS recordsand Mail forwarding set up.... I bounce the emails to
pop3 accounts elsewhere.

 

ginge secured a place in history by writing:

Really? I got hit by this the other day so set up with Google's SMTP -
which replaced my domain address with my googlemail address....

So I switched to BTInternet, and that works fine..

 

I have a mail server, but if I set it to send the emails out directly
to where they're destined to go, the email servers that receive them do
various checks, and Sky have blacklisted all their ADSL customers (like
me) IP numbers, so those checks fail, so no-one will accept any emails
directly from my server.

So, I have to use Skys own outgoing email server, which is what they've
just turned off.

 

Just read up about gmails smtp server and i see it changes the From:
line in any emails you send.

You can set what appears in there (the Default email account in the
settings?) but that means you can only use one From: email address
unless you go and change it frequently.

 

Why would I want to change it frequently? I've got 2 gmail accounts, 1
for me at each domain I own. If I needed more mailboxes I'd set up more
gmail accounts, and direct to them accordingly.

You're making this overly complicated.

 

How about "was part of the team the wrote the afore-mentioned
website"?

 

ginge scribbled:

There's more than just me using my email server.

I don't want other peoples outgoing email to have my email address in
them do I?

 

You miss the point by a country mile, move each user's mailbox onto
their own gmail account, set up the the mailbox redirects at your DNS
provider. switch the server off, save electricity, save the planet.

Running your own email server at home is so 1998.

 

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