POP3 fun

Hi - sorry if this is a silly question but here goes...

I have a friend who's bought a domain name, and has an email address
info@hisdomain, which is forwarded to his hotmail addy.

However, he wants to be able to send emails from the info@... address
too, without having to purchase POP3 accounts from his domain
administrators. I'm trying to figure a way of sending mails from my own
webspace that are sent out as info@hisdomain, but can't... I'm sure it
must be possible, but can't figure any way of doing it. Can anyone
help?

Many thanks in advance!

Re: POP3 fun

In article <1122800546.287089.109610@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
nickdaweuk@hotmail.com wrote:

> Hi - sorry if this is a silly question but here goes...
>
> I have a friend who's bought a domain name, and has an email address
> info@hisdomain, which is forwarded to his hotmail addy.
>
> However, he wants to be able to send emails from the info@... address
> too, without having to purchase POP3 accounts from his domain
> administrators. I'm trying to figure a way of sending mails from my own
> webspace that are sent out as info@hisdomain, but can't... I'm sure it
> must be possible, but can't figure any way of doing it. Can anyone
> help?
>
> Many thanks in advance!
>

Not sure what you mean "sending mails from my own webspace."

In any event, he should be able to send mail with whatever return
address he wants (but should only use return addresses that he either
owns, is allowed to use, or are clearly invalid, but not forged) through
his ISPs SMTP server using a regular e-mail program (i.e. not something
web-based* like Hotmail).

*Actually, fastmail.fm lets you set a return address on their webmail,
but not sure if their free accounts allow this.

-Andrew

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Re: POP3 fun

Thanks for the reply. What I'd meant by "sending mails from my own
webspace." was that I'd originally thought of sending emails from my
web server, as he hasn't bought any kind of webspace, just the domain
name. I don't really know much about using SMTP, but I'll have a play
with Outlook and see what I can do, cheers.

Oh, I'm not sure that the free fastmail account will allow me to send
mail from another return address (ie one that is info@friendsdomain
rather than @fastmail.com or whatever), but hey ho..!

Re: POP3 fun

On 31 Jul 2005 10:58:42 -0700, nickdaweuk@hotmail.com wrote:

> Thanks for the reply. What I'd meant by "sending mails from my own
> webspace." was that I'd originally thought of sending emails from my
> web server, as he hasn't bought any kind of webspace, just the domain
> name. I don't really know much about using SMTP, but I'll have a play
> with Outlook and see what I can do, cheers.
>
> Oh, I'm not sure that the free fastmail account will allow me to send
> mail from another return address (ie one that is info@friendsdomain
> rather than @fastmail.com or whatever), but hey ho..!

In order to send email, your friend would need access to an SMTP server. If
are going to share access to your SMTP server, be sure that your SMTP
service permits such sharing; I'd really be surprised if it did.

In my case, I have a domain, and I use my ISP's SMTP server. They have
restrictions on access by account, but not by email address. Because I am
authorized to use their server, I can use it with any email address that I
am authorized to use.

What I can do is use my ISP's SMTP servers to relay email for me, using any
email address I am authorized to use.

What I can't do is allow my friend to access that server through a service
on my computer; I am not allowed to relay for non-ISP customers.

If your friend has an SMTP service, it should permit him to use any email
address he is authorized to use; including any on his personal domain. If
he doesn't have an SMTP service, he should obtain service on his own. You
shouldn't need to do anything on his behalf; unless you own your own SMTP
service, and are willing to allow him access without fee.

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