Email Relay

smayers

I am hoping that someone can help me. I have a gmail account and I need to set up an email address to forward to my gmail account. I can set up the email address that I want with 123-reg but when it forwards to my gmail account gmail rejects it as I guess it doesn't know it and thinks it is spam. Do all free email accounts do this or is there one that doesn't.

Many Thanks for any help.

Sarah.

robt_2

What do you mean by gmail rejects it? Does the mail just not arrive? End up in the spam/junk area?

smayers

It bounces back with this:

Technical details of permanent failure:
PERM_FAILURE: Gmail tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 relay not permitted. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. Thanks for your continued support. (state 14)

russ_gillespie

I used to have my own domain forward to my Gmail account without any problems so I know they allow it.

Currently I have it the other way around. Gmail forwards to my own domain.

I suspect it's a problem with your setup rather than Gmail.

mjhmjh2

It sounds like you are trying to send your outgoing email through g-mail. With your own domain this will be blocked as you can only send from [EMAIL="YOURADDRESS@gmail.com"]YOURADDRESS@gmail.com[/EMAIL].

You should be able to relay through your ISP server depending on who you are with. Set your email client to have the from address as you require, with the outgoing server (SMTP) set to your ISP and your POP server to gmail. e.g my settings are like this sending via O2, receiving through my paid spam filter service (so similar to what you want to do). So my settings on my mail client are like this:-
from [EMAIL="Matthew@mydomain.com"]Matthew@mydomain.com[/EMAIL]
SMTP server smtp.o2.co.uk
POP server mail.spamcop.net

I then have to configure the username and passwords in the advanced setup to allow two different user/passwords.

You will also need to make sure there is a forward set at 123-reg to forward anyincoming mail to your g-mail account.

If you are with sky you cannot relay anything but sky.net/com through their servers (well you can but they will stamp the mail with sent by blahblah@sky .com on behalf of [EMAIL="realname@domain.com"]realname@domain.com[/EMAIL]) and you would need to find a free relay service (they are about but very hard to find)

Hope that helps
Matthew

smayers

Is starting to make sense - I just need to spend a bit of time understanding it fully I think.

Thanks for your help.