[Chicago-talk] emailing from perl
Jonathan T. Rockway
jon at jrock.us
Sun Aug 5 00:35:18 PDT 2007
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 02:29:17PM -0400, Steven Lembark wrote:
> Q: If you do not intend to use local smtp, what
> is your ISP's smtp forwarding hostname or
> IP address? If you telnet to it's IP and port
> 25 can you connect?
>
> Until you have working answers to these questions
> no amount of local email code is going to work: it
> won't have a mail transport agent to talk to and
> thus won't have any way to move the mail.
Not true. If I want to send mail to foo at example.com, all I have to do
is look up the MX record for example.com and talk to port 25 on that
machine. No local (or ISP-level) mail server is necessary.
Things like SPF might complicate this if you want to send mail with a
>From field of me at yourcompany.com, so I wouldn't necessarily recommend
it. Then again, I sent this message with that technique, so it
apparently works.
Regards,
Jonathan Rockway
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