SMTP Relay Gateway

[Buffalo]

Does anyone happen to know of a free SMTP relay server?

I need to test a paging system and I'm using a command line SMTP sender....

Unfortunately, the emails have to have a specific "from" address that doesn't conform to our email domain, and I can relay through our corporate SMTP gateway :(

Any help would be muchly appreciated :)

[midg3t]

I'm sure you are aware that what you're asking for is a public email gateway, just like those used by spammers.

The thing about having a muffed from address becomes pretty sus.

You could run your own local SMTP server. I recommend Postfix (http://www.postfix.org).

[Buffalo]

Yeah - After I re-read what I'd posted I thought the same thing - and I'm doing exactly what you mentioned.. I'm trying to use the SMTP built int oXP first but I may just scrap it and try something else (such as postfix)...

[Maestro]

What form does the "from" field need to take? Would it be enough to have an email address in the form of X@X.mydomain.com or does it need to be an entire address or non-standard format?

I can give you command line SMTP (or standard webmail or whatever) for my domain or one of my IP's if you like, but I don't know whether that would help.

[Buffalo]

Originally posted by Maestro
What form does the "from" field need to take? Would it be enough to have an email address in the form of X@X.mydomain.com or does it need to be an entire address or non-standard format?

I can give you command line SMTP (or standard webmail or whatever) for my domain or one of my IP's if you like, but I don't know whether that would help.

Thanks for the offer! I've actually managed to find my legitimate up-stream relay gateway, and I'm using it. The comand line tool I'm using is Postie.

Unfortunately the mail has to appear to have come from a particular account with the password supplied in the subject line. Due to a screw up by the previous admin here, that email address is not consistent with our domain address. Hence the need to bypass our exchange server...

[plext]

If you create a dummy account on the Exchange system, you can add an SMTP address for any domain name to it and set it as the primary.

Exchange cares not what your sending address is, so long as you have a valid secondary email address that it can deliver to.

Edit: Oh yeah, don't forget to untick the "Automatically update email addresses" box

[Buffalo]

*Smacks forehead* duuuurrrrr

Of course! Thanks once again!

BTW Dude thanks for the reference the other night mann - I got the job!!!!