The spam you get is done in different methods, viagra emails etc.
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The line in bold is the server that sent it, or I should say relayed it, quite often spam relays through various servers so it harder to track back to the source.
But back on topic, I think the original poster was misunderstood. I think he was sending through gmail to not use ntl mail server. I do the same I dont use ntl for any email I consider important since from my own experience I have found email to get lost and delayed, and my own email servers have spam and virus filters as well. Obviously if he then used ntl smtp server to send his mail he would be defeating the purpose of wanting to send thru his specific smtp server, and the reciever of the email would know it came from ntl which he might not want them to see.