Re: Emailing from a daemon process
Re: Emailing from a daemon process
- Subject: Re: Emailing from a daemon process
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2016 09:05:49 -0700
> On Jul 8, 2016, at 8:44 AM, Alastair Houghton <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> It has a very high probability of being marked as spam, whatever headers you use, because it’ll be delivered direct to the recipient’s mail server
Oh — I hadn’t thought of that. I sent my test email to myself, so of course it connected to my domain host’s SMTP. I just assumed that had come from my email settings.
Yeah, this is pretty unlikely to work these days, for the reasons Alastair gave. Any SMTP server but your own ISP’s / domain host’s is going to assume you’re a spam-bot.
The answer to “Why is it so hard to send email programmatically?” is basically “Because spammers.” (Also “because SMTP was designed in the 1970s/80s with no security considerations whatsoever, and we’ve never been able to graft proper useable security onto it, for reasons like backward compatibility and bike-shedding lack of consensus. Also, securing decentralized systems is hard.”)
—Jens
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