[MlMt] Selecting default SMTP server

[Antonio Leding]

“…not feasible to send mail claiming to be from a particular address 
through any arbitrarily chosen mail server…”

Mostly true but there’s ways around such hindrances…

https://www.wpoven.com/blog/free-smtp-servers-sending-emails/

I haven’t used any of my “assigned” SMTP servers since 2000.  And 
since 2013, been using a combo of Amazon’s SES or my own Postfix…the 
latter is especially nice if one wants to use a non-standard port...

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On 24 Jul 2021, at 19:47, Bill Cole wrote:

> On 2021-07-24 at 21:15:55 UTC-0400 (Sat, 24 Jul 2021 18:15:55 -0700)
> Ralph Alvy <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
> is rumored to have said:
>
>> If I have more than one Source Acct, how do I tell Mailmate with SMTP 
>> server to use for outgoing mail?
>
> Each account has its own exclusive SMTP Server settings. This is good 
> because on the modern Internet, it is not feasible to send mail 
> claiming to be from a particular address through any arbitrarily 
> chosen mail server. It might work, but more likely your mail would be 
> rejected or worse: dropped silently.
>
>
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> Bill Cole
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