Sending email from your domain
| Sending email from your domain | |
23 May 2003
Last time, we looked at setting up email forwarding – this time we’ll discuss how to send from your domain. To recap the example we’re using, we’ve purchased the domain examplecompany.co.uk and dial into the net using Tiscali. Our Tiscali email address is josephsoap@tiscali.co.uk and it’s into this inbox that our examplecompany.co.uk email is forwarding. If you’re still with me, good. If not, it might be an idea to read through the previous instalment before venturing further.[If you’re an AOL user, you’re out of luck. Their proprietary software is not compatible with email clients such as Outlook Express and Microsoft Outlook, so this tweak won’t work. Sorry. But please carry on reading just the same] Pressing on, then, we pick up our email as usual, or pop our inbox in geek-speak. Lo and behold, there’s a message for info@examplecompany.co.uk Now, we don’t wish to smash this correspondent’s illusions by responding from josephsoap@tiscali.co.uk. So, here’s what we do. [This example, for the sake of continuity, uses the settings for Tiscali but the principles remain the same for all ISPs] Firstly, we open Outlook Express and take a note of the settings for the josephsoap@tiscali.co.uk email account. We’ll need the user name, password and outgoing email server details to create our new examplecompany.co.uk email address. (Do not delete your ISP provided email account! Create a new email address for your domain email.) To get the settings, we go Tools/Accounts and then click on the josephsoap@tiscali.co.uk email account listed in the window. Next, we click on Properties and then the Servers tab. From here we jot down the settings for our Incoming mail, in this case it’s pop.tiscali.co.uk. The Outgoing email server is smtp.tiscali.co.uk. In the Incoming email server section of the tab, we can recall the Account name and password. Click Okay – NOT Apply - to exit. [Do not click Apply. If the Apply button is available instead of being greyed out, it means you have inadvertently made a change in one or more of the fields. Click Okay and none of the unintended changes will take effect.] Now we go Tools/Accounts/Add/Mail to create our info@examplecompany.co.uk email account. In the first screen of the wizard we fill in the Display Name field thus: Example Company, and then click Next. In the Email address box we type in info@examplecompany.co.uk and click Next. At Email Server Names we type in pop.tiscali.co.uk for Incoming Mail server and smtp.tiscali.co.uk for Outgoing Mail server, then click Next.
At Internet Mail Logon, we type in our ISP account name, in this example, it’s josephsoap, and then we put in our password and click Next. Congratulations! Click Finish. Only one more task to complete. We now see there’s a new account appearing alongside josephsoap@tiscali.co.uk and it’s pop.tiscali.co.uk [1]. Single click on this account and then click Properties. On the General tab, click on pop.tiscali.co.uk [1] and type in Example Company instead. This simplifies matters and lets you know at a glance which email account is which. Next, in the User Information section, four text fields down, it says Reply Address. Type in info@examplecompany.co.uk then click Apply and Okay. Hurrah!! We can now receive and send from our domain. So goodbye josephsoap@tiscali.co.uk and hello info@examplecompany.co.uk However, as noted earlier, it’s not ta-ta to @aol.com. If you dial up with America On-Line, their proprietary software does not allow email address tweaking. Likewise almost all webmail accounts that you access via your browser. The few exceptions to this are the webmail account:
Now, if all this isn’t enough to make your brain hurt, customers with domains registered with HostEurope can now access smtp servers to send directly from their domains if they dial in through HostEurope’s 0845 service. Time for a lie down in a darkened room now, methinks. What was so bad about pigeons anyway? | |