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. Instead, the ideal approach is to relay through a central SMTP gateway for all of the outbound emails generated from your server(s).
I’ve been on Google mail hosting for a long time now and needed to configure my server to relay mail through it. Here’s a nice article that walks you through exactly what needs to be done to configure your sendmail MTA to relay through Gmail’s SMTP servers. Another similar post here.
I’ve been on Google mail hosting for a long time now and needed to configure my server to relay mail through it. Here’s a nice article that walks you through exactly what needs to be done to configure your sendmail MTA to relay through Gmail’s SMTP servers. Another similar post here.
