Sending Mail from your own domain

[Lightfoot82]

Hi Guys,

Just a quicky, i have a site on my own domain and i want to send mail from my POP3 account chris@myweb.com as well as receive, any suggestions?

I have looked at buying a program such as mass mailer to do the job but im wondering how everyone else is doing it?

Cheers

[tracknut]

I use MS Outlook (set up an account for the email related to each domain) when I'm sending individual mails, and a mass mailer when I want to send a whole mass of them :)

Dave

[Lightfoot82]

Thanks for the response, but what do you set your smtp server too? my hosts dont give me that feature only pop3 receiving?

Cheers

[tracknut]

Set your SMTP server to whatever you usually have it set to at your ISP, not something at your web host. This isn't guaranteed to work, some ISP's don't allow it (you're basically forging the email header), but it certainly works for me :)

Dave

[The_Magus]

It seems the question here is whether you have an ISP in addition to your web site. I can send and receive e-mails through my site but only if I enter the details of my SMTP from the ISP. For example in MS Outlook the incoming server is shown as "pop3.mysite.com" while the outgoing server is "relay.ISP.net". It appears that servers which host web site do not include an SMTP program as part of their service. Why, I don't know nor do I know how complicated and difficult it would be offer this. I have used three different hosts over the past few years and none offered this. Prior to getting ADSL I had to have an ISP to use the dial up connection to the internet but now with ADSL I would like to drop this but can't as I need their SMTP facility.