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From: "Gary R. Schmidt" <grschmidt@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Looking for a commercial outgoing SMTP server for my domain
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:04:51 +1000
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On 18/7/25 04:53, Arnold Ziffel wrote:
> Gary R. Schmidt <grschmidt@acm.org> wrote:
> 
>> For my home system, due to my RSP (TPG) being bloody useless at email, I
>> created free accounts with various SMTP providers - smtp2go, sendgrid,
>> and so on - evaluated them, and ended up with smtp2go.
> 
> Thanks Gary, smtp2go was one service I consider(ed).
> 
>> Setting up authentication with Postfix is pretty easy, then I had to
>> look into transport maps because I use various domains for various
>> things (it's not like I'm the ACM!  ;-) ), and use the correct relay in
>> relation to the "From" address, and I've not had an email go astray since.
> 
> I see. I have one domain with multiple aliases, will it be OK to just
> forward everything to their relay, without creating each alias there?
> 
What do you mean by "aliases" in this context?

Do you mean that /etc/aliases has a bunch of "xyz: arnold" lines, or 
that you have multiple domains or sub-domains mapped to a single domain?

If it's aliases, that'll be fine, if you're playing with domain-mapping, 
go join the postfix mailing lists, that's the deep magic. :-)

> Actually I might even disable relaying in my Postfix and switch my MUA to
> use their relay directly... this way, my Postfix would be used for
> incoming mail only.
> 
That's a way to do it.

	Cheers,
		Gary	B-)