Short answer to your question is no.. Long answer..... MT has a small mail sender "client" portion of software, i.e. similar to the mail sender client that is on your desktop computer The functionality you are asking for is a Mail Server (Receiver) side functionality. The SPF is not a sender side control.. but a receiver side validation of an authorized sender. SFP record vs going to spam, are two different functions, not related, but used together to control spam.
if you setup the MT to send mail to the end mail server (i.e. the mail server that has the email mail box on it) then YOU DON"T NEED Authentication credentials. (Auth credentials are only needed for mail relay... not receiving mail) open mail relays are a bad thing..... (unless you have them firewall protected by IP address range, then the risk is reduced ). Regards Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: [email protected] > From: "Steve Jones" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2017 7:39:52 AM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] sending mail from mikrotik without smtp server > I guess that wasnt all that clear, is mikrotik capable of acting as a mail > facility, like sendmail, the spf record allows its public facing ip to send on > behalf of the domain without going to spam. Im never a fan of credentialling > in > devices when i can avoid it because a credential change inevitably results in > stranded alerts. Inside our active directory domains i always set up an open > smtp relay with an acl to avoid credentials on devices that do mail alerts or > printers that email > On May 12, 2017 3:23 PM, "Faisal Imtiaz" < [email protected] > wrote: >> I think you are getting confused with some aspect of how the Mail gets sent >> (SMTP Process). >> in MT lingo... smtp server = it can be your mail server (the one that has the >> receiving email account) which can also be a 'Relay' server if it does not >> have >> the receiving email account and it is supposed to forward the mail to the end >> mail server in the chain. >> SPF records are used by the receiving mail server to determine validity of >> email >> vs spam etc... >> If you are asking about why you have to configure Authentication ? the >> answer is >> you don't ... if the mailserver listed in the smtp server is the final >> receiving mail server. >> Regards. >> Faisal Imtiaz >> Snappy Internet & Telecom >> 7266 SW 48 Street >> Miami, FL 33155 >> Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 >> Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: [email protected] >>> From: "Steve Jones" < [email protected] > >>> To: [email protected] >>> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2017 4:15:25 PM >>> Subject: [AFMUG] sending mail from mikrotik without smtp server >>> Is there a way to get the mikrotik to just send emails without having to >>> configure an smtp server/relay? I dont directly have issue with setting up >>> authentication to a mail relay, it just seems unneccessary if I have good >>> SPF
