Email Server / Forward to a Friend

Help with email server and Forward to a Friend .. !

[TravelDog]

I found recently that one of our sites ‘Forward to a Friend’ wasn’t sending the forward using the senders email address, which in many cases is a free email service like hotmail or yahoomail et al. Instead we are using a default email address of: clientservices @widgetwebsite.c**

As we outsource all of our technology I questioned why this was so.

The response I got was that; hotmail, and yahoo et al won't allow us to do this! The reason being that the email is being sent by an email address that is not associated with the server. If we did allow it they (hotmail and yahoomail et al) would consider all email from the server spam and blacklist it. This would mean that any email associated with the server would be rejected.

So my question is.

How do we get around this problem so we can send a Forward to a Friend email so its shows that it came from the clients own email address. I’m sure we must be missing something simple.

Thanks

TD

[MichaelBluejay]

The question is whether Yahoo and Hotmail really blacklist sites that use the Forward to a Friend feature using the forwarder's email address as the return address. I'm skeptical that that's really the case, though I guess it could be.....

If Yahoo and Hotmail are really checking the domain name of the sender's email against your server's IP, then I don't know how you'd get around that.

Anyway, here's yet another example of how spam hurts everyone -- there are all this extra consequences. I tear my hair out whenever someone says, "What's so bad about spam? You can just hit Delete."