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.