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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
The reason is you cannot send an email from gmail using ntlworld smtp mail server.
If you could do that then there would be all kinds of spoofing going on thats simply not how email works. You can change the reply to address(different thing) but the email will be sent from username@ntlworld.com.
The only 2 ways to send from gmail is on the web mail interface or with the gmail smtp server.
To send mail you have to authenticate to the server etc. Ntl authentication I believe is just needing the user to match to a valid ip range and be recently have logged into pop. Gmail will need a valid user/pass and of course this is authenticated on the actual gmail mail server. |
Eh? My Thunderbird is set up for about 7 emails sent through 1 SMTP. This set-up works at uni (via uni's SMTP because they block access to others) and at home on ntl (all through ntl). So I kinda think I know what I'm talking about
As for SMTP you don't even need to be able to access the account you're sending from. I sent meself an email from an address I just made up on the spot and didn't own, again, via NTL SMTP, not using an ntl address at either end... and guess what, it worked. [Didn't bother replying though.] This is how email addresses are spoofed
And while I'm at it I may as well go for the hat-trick. To use NTL's SMTP, all you need to be is on the NTL network. You can send addresses from any account via SMTP because it needs naff-all authentication, not even a user name and password in some cases, in the cases it does, it doesn't suddenly divert it as though it's sent from that address. Trust me, I've done it.
3-0, nffc walks off with the match ball. Forest win for a change
