[Alpine-info] sending mails with alpine

[Carlos E. R.]

On 2022-10-09 20:46, Carlos E. R. wrote:

> On 2022-10-09 20:15, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:

>> I don't really understand your reply:

>> I don't have a somebody at gmail.com account. somebody at gmail.com is the 

>> recipient address to which I send the mail

>> I don't login to send the message, I just type "alpine 

>> somebody at gmail.com"

> 

> You do not login, but Alpine needs to login somewhere to be able to 

> send. And uses whatever identity you told it to use.

> 

> 

> You can follow the "received" headers in your post you sent to the mail 

> list to find out what happened.

> 

> First one is at the bottom.

> 

> Received: from pfr2 (unknown [91.175.65.3])

>      by smtp3-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7661913F8C8;

>      Sun,  9 Oct 2022 20:15:33 +0200 (CEST)

> 

> 

> Means that machine pfr2 sent to smtp3-g21.free.fr. This first step 

> required some ID.


Oh, I forgot.

free.fr is not authorized by google to send mail using gmail addresses, 
so when you send emails using that server, do not be surprised that some 
recipients treat you as spammer.

Look it up: SPF, dmarc, DKIM, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DomainKeys_Identified_Mail


-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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