Title: Originating server
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Originating server

 *  [Jon Brown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jb510/)
 * (@jb510)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/originating-server/)
 * I tried this and WP Mail SMTP. After configuring them the test (and live) emails
   and inspecting the raw message headers they all still show as originating on 
   the web server, then going THROUGH the smtp/email server, and finally to me.
 * I assumed using SMTP directly would mean the web server (hosted on WP Engine 
   if it matters) wouldn’t show up in the header at all and it’s look like it started
   on the email server. I definitely not and email/smtp expert (although I thought
   I knew how to read email headers).
 * Does this seem correct? My goal in all this is to use our authenticated SMTP 
   server which has SPF records for it.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/configure-smtp/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/configure-smtp/)

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