Re: add option to specify HELO name/identity in SMTP client

2022-09-09 Thread David Pinto
‪On Wed, 7 Sept 2022 at 15:37, ‫אורי‬‎ wrote:‬ > > Hi David, > > Does and should Django connect directly to a remote SMTP server? Isn't it > better to use the local mail server which will receive the email and then > send it to a remote SMTP server? In my opinion, it's always better to send > e

Re: add option to specify HELO name/identity in SMTP client

2022-09-07 Thread אורי
Hi David, Does and should Django connect directly to a remote SMTP server? Isn't it better to use the local mail server which will receive the email and then send it to a remote SMTP server? In my opinion, it's always better to send emails via a local mail server on the same machine. Do you have o

add option to specify HELO name/identity in SMTP client

2022-09-07 Thread David Miguel Susano Pinto
After connecting to a SMTP server, a client identifies themselves with a HELO/EHLO command, like so: HELO my-domain.example While typically this is the client FQDN, that's not actually required and in some setups the client needs to use some other name (it just so happens that I'm in that sit