E-mail from my domain name?

[teabag]

This is probably a bit of a schoolboy question, but here goes....I'd like to be able to send e-mail using my companies web domain name..But don't want to have to go to much expense or hassle, really wanting to just use some Hotmail type thing. Also need to be able for when somebody replies to see the domain name in the reply (if that makes sense).

How would I do this ?

[VectraMan]

Set the reply to address in your email client? Depends what you have.

I've no idea if hotmail lets you (plus hotmail is a bad idea anyway).

[Mordac]

If you are using Outlook, whatever is set in the "your name" field (on the email settings screen) is what the recipient sees as the email sender. So instead of John Smith, you can put JohnSmith.com or John Smith Enterprises.
I suspect most email apps allow you to the same thing, but I would definitely advise against Hotmail, it's not particularly professional, plus a lot of companies block Hotmail anyway.
The reply-to can be set to a different email address, which is handy if you have several.

[ASB]

Teabag,

You've got one half of it from the descriptions above.

What you will also need to do is to set up mail forwarding on your domain to forward to teabag@myisp.co.uk - or whatever the account is you get your POP3 from. You shouldn't need to pay for this.

Some isp's SMTP will bounce mail where the domain in the address claimed doens not match the ISP's address. However theres bound to be a freebie SMTP out there somewhere.

[xodia]

I guess you talking about doing this on a client site

If you using exchange server set you outlook to pick up mail from the pop3 server whilst setting both home and work PC's to "leave copy on the server" that way you can have a copy of incoming mails at home

For outgoing mail, set up a custom recipient with you email address and assign your self send as rights

otherwise if you have a hosted domain package you should be able to use there webmail service

[Ardesco]

bear in mind that just putting your domain name in your reply to address will not do much if it is not a valid e-mail address in the first place, any mail sent to it will just bounce back.

[Mustang]

One thing to remember is that most hosted domains allow web access anyway. My ISP is hosting my domain name/website and I have emails set up for it which I can access from anywhere - all I have to do is remember to close Outlook when I am not at home so that incoming emails remain on the server.

[lauralee0808]

I know your meaning. You just reply mails from your clients in another mailbox but after the clients receiving from you, they can your domain name and believe that the mails are from your webmail.

My last company really did so. We replied mail at yahoo.com because there are so many mails from our users.

But I don't know what really happen in the mailboxes. It seems there is a program to realizing it.

[DaveB]

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[NoddY]

Setting alternate "From:" or "Reply-To:" fields is bad practise if you are sending mail via SMTP servers not authorised for that domain! Many corporates and ISP's will allow you to send *any* kind of SMTP message if you are on their 'home' network, because the server permits relaying for home networks.

However, the destination SMTP server might well be using SPF (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework). This encourages domain owners to specify which SMTP servers are authorised to send email out. This action will often be prompted by domains being targeted by spammers as part of a Joe job: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_job

Victims of Joe jobs will see bounces from legitimate SMTP servers for messages that where originally sent by spammers - precisely because the "From:" or "Reply-To" field was forged to *your* address by the original spammer.