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Fritzolio

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When I set this box up I put my email address in the "From Email" box. It's working just fine but the emails look like they're coming from me. My question is - Does this have to be a legitimate email address or can I put something in here that better identifies that it's from FreeNas?

OK, I played around with it and figured it out. It has to be in the form of an email address but the address doesn't have to be legit. I changed it to FreeNAS@home.net and all is well. :)
 

Ericloewe

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Your e-mail provider might not take kindly to faked origin addresses and may flag it as spam, so keep that in mind.
 

jgreco

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Especially if there's already a SPF record. In any case, someone already owns "home.net" so that's really not a good thing to do.
 

Fritzolio

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So what's the proper way to do this? Surely it's not to use your own email address?
 

jgreco

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It could be. It depends on what you have available. Do you have a domain name, or are you just using an ISP or freemail e-mail address? If the former, use it. Create an address. If the latter, is there anything stopping you from registering "fritzolios-freenas@gmail.com" as an e-mail address?
 

Bidule0hm

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Personally I used freenas[at]gmail.com because I use gmail, but now I wonder too what is recommended?
 

danb35

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Surely it's not to use your own email address?
Why wouldn't it be? Any email you send should be from a valid address that you control (not from a domain you don't own or have any control over, Chipotle). If you only have one email address, and are either unable or disinclined to create another that would be dedicated to your FreeNAS server, then your own email address would seem to be the most appropriate answer.
 

jgreco

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Why wouldn't it be? Any email you send should be from a valid address that you control (not from a domain you don't own or have any control over, Chipotle). If you only have one email address, and are either unable or disinclined to create another that would be dedicated to your FreeNAS server, then your own email address would seem to be the most appropriate answer.

Ah! Excellent, another well-read person, re: Chipotle. Yeah, just making up something that you don't actually have the right to use is infinitely annoying. First, many mailservers will not accept mail that involves an envelope sender or recipient with an invalid domain; DNS is easily checked these days for legitimacy. If the domain doesn't exist, there's certainly a risk that someone might "fix" that on you (hey, Chipotle!). But equally bad is that someone might actually legitimately have that address. So for giggles I have "jgreco@yahoo" - not that I actually use their mail service for anything, just that I like having it. There are about a dozen effwits who also think they have that address, and I occasionally get notices from "my" car dealership, some idiot doctors service, bank statements, legal documents, etc. and I could probably really tear in and do some real damage if I was malicious.

Use an address that's yours and that you control. There's no harm in using your own e-mail address, or setting up a secondary e-mail address with a freemail provider. Get a static IP address and a domain name and then you can even provide your own e-mail service.
 

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You actually managed to get the address "freenas@gmail.com"? Coool.

Nop, I just use it as the sender email. But maybe I'll change to use an alias of one of the email address I own because of what you've said ;)
 
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