[Gllug] BT and Outgoing Email

[Paul Cupis]

On Wednesday 30 March 2005 18:53, "David Abbishaw" <David at Abbishaw.com> 
wrote:
> Has anyone come across BT Openworld not allowing you to send email
> through there servers if you try to set your email address to
> something other than your btopenworld address, say if you own a
> domain name and you want to have your mail appear to come from that
> address.  I know that I could fix the issue with setting up a local
> SMTP server unfortunately the place I need to do this I cant.  Also
> some dynamic IP ranges are caught up in various spam DB's so Id
> prefer to offload the mail to a big mail server which is less likely
> to be blacklisted.
>
> Any Ideas or anyone know of a workaround?

This is a known "feature" of BTOs outgoing mail server. You can get them 
to allow you to send email From your own domain name, but you have to 
telephone their support line and ask them nicely. You'll be asked to 
provide some proof that the domain name you want to send From is 
actually yours - normally if the whois information matches the customer 
information they have for your account that'll do.

Watch out for the sales droids who will tell you that you will have to 
transfer your domain name to BTO and pay them to provide any services 
under that domain for you (hosting etc).

Regards,

Paul Cupis
-- 
paul at cupis.co.uk

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