[Alpine-info] sending mails with alpine

[Lucio Chiappetti]

On Wed, 12 Oct 2022, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:


> BTW: how to use "gmail own servers" ?


My default configuration does not use them, but uses the old institute 
SMTP server and my From is my old institute.inaf.it, which comes back via 
Gsuite. If I want I can also send as "user at inaf.it" (which is managed nby 
Gsuite) simply editing the From line. USUALLY this gives me no problem as 
we are authorized by our Gsuite contract to use all our old and new 
official domains.

However *occasionally* some external users may flag such mail as spam, or 
I may have reasons of my own to use "gmail own servers" (Gsuite is the 
paid version), e.g. oif pur SMTP is down for maintenance.

To do that I have created a ROLE (M S R R) called Gsuite, and I send using 
such role. The key lines of the role are (for me)


>From pattern      = lucio.chiappetti at inaf.it

Use SMTP Server = smtp.gmail.com/submit/user=lucio.chiappetti at inaf.it

You should replace my institutional address with your gmail address, and 
you are done. Ypou can switch roles whenever you want.