Email

Prior to switching to Sky, we purchased a domain and changed our email over to that. Using Outlook, I set the email address at our domain one, and when I send emails through that it looks my domain email address, rather than the f2s.com address. I have set the email to just forward to my f2s and now my sky email addresses

I am now trying to do the same thing with the Sky email. However despite doing the same thing when I send email it still looks (and replies) to the Sky.com email address.

Has anybody else done this? Can you help at all?

Can't you set IMAP so that your Skymail is forwarded to your domain email, and when you click reply you do s with your domain name extension? I do the same thing with Gmail.

I don't have any email with my domain, I just use the email forwarding. this way I have one email address, and I can forward it to where ever my curreny email is with

In reply to a post by krazykizza:

Can't you set IMAP so that your Skymail is forwarded to your domain email, and when you click reply you do s with your domain name extension? I do the same thing with Gmail.

As do i with Sky mail

NickyJ
Sign in to Sky mail go to settings>Forwarding Imap/pop>enable pop and or Imap

follow instructions to configure email client.

Outlokk should use the eMail Addy & the Reply Addy that you have set in the Outlook a/c for this domain. What have you got these set to?

If you look at the Message Source of the Sent Item in Outlook what does it contain in the From: and Reply-to: fields?

Is its Outgoing Mail Server set to Sky's SMTP? Sky's SMTP should not alter these addys.

you'd need to change your domains DNS servers for that to happen by the sounds of it, and Sky won't support that.

I have got it sending by adding [email protected] to my emails listed under settings.

This at least get the reply address correct but it now shows as:

From: [email protected] sent on behalf of: [email protected]

When you reply it does at least go to [email protected]. I have tried getting their support in this but been told they don't support Outlook as it is a Microsoft product, I tried getting through to them that that side of things is fine as I am doing the same as I do if I send through my old ISP but they just keep reiterating we don't support outlook.

That's the way gmail works.

Bypass the Sky smtp server. Link

Thanks I found that via various searches, and I have applied for their SMTP server. I was going to post once it was setup and working.

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

That's the way gmail works.

I found this link which explains it in more detail. BTW Sky email is actually Google Gmail.

http://email.about.com/od/gmailtips/qt/Send_Mail_fro...

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

That's the way gmail works.

Yes, I confirm that.

The From: & Reply-To: fields in the actual Sent Item are whichever (non-Google) addys I choose. However once it has been received the From: has been altered to my GoogleMail addy, but the Reply-To: is not altered.

Looks like OP will have to use that alternative Sky SMTP Server.

In reply to a post by XRaySpeX:

The From: & Reply-To: fields in the actual Sent Item are whichever (non-Google) addys I choose. However once it has been received the From: has been altered to my GoogleMail addy, but the Reply-To: is not altered.

As long as you add the third-party email address to Settings > Accounts in Gmail/Sky webmail, the "From:" address should not be altered at all when sending with the third-party email address. However Gmail will always add a "Sender:" header in this case, which triggers Outlook's (and probably others) "on behalf of" behaviour.

Edited by Oliver341 (Wed 23-Feb-11 17:26:03)

Yes, I wanted to try this 1st without messing about with Webmail.

In reply to a post by Oliver341:

However Gmail will always add a "Sender:" header in this case, which triggers Outlook's (and probably others) "on behalf of" behaviour.

Ah, thanks! I wondered where the aforementioned "on behalf of" came from. OE doesn't add anything even with the Sender: header present.

Edited by XRaySpeX (Wed 23-Feb-11 18:34:36)

Ah. Thanks I have outlook at work and at home. Anyway skyuser have given me
access to their smtp service and it is all working.

In reply to a post by XRaySpeX:

Ah, thanks! I wondered where the aforementioned "on behalf of" came from. OE doesn't add anything even with the Sender: header present.

FWIW, Outlook Express was stupidly named. If you look at the EXE its actually "IMN.EXE" which came with IE 4 and earlier and was known as "Internet Mail and News". With IE 5 it was renamed Outlook Express - because someone at MS thought "outlook" was the name for all their email products.

Since Outlook and OE work dramatically differently (the former has a plugin provider model, the latter is POP3 or IMAP only) the only sensible thing was to change the name.

So in Vista it became "Windows Mail" and then in Win 7 no mail client is included. You can now download "Windows Live Mail" for Win7 or earlier, and its based on the IMN/OE code.

Outlook does the "on behalf of" because in corporates its common to have delegation of mail to a PA or secretary etc. OE doesn't support any of this as its a single PC tool.