How to recieve/setup email

[icebreaker]

I have a registered domain name through yahoo and right now I have it so that whenever anyone emails my ministry it forwards it to my real email. I want to set it up so that I can recieve it through outlook or something instead of forwarding it to my main email but not sure what to do.

 

[GraphicMD]

That might be a service you have to pay yahoo for. I don't think that is free.

You need to get the pop3 address. example pop.geociteis.com or mail.geocities.com and you will need your account name and password.
In order to send main you need your SMTP server address. You might need to contact your ISP provider about that one. It will likely be smtp.ips_provider.com

Once you have this informaion you need to go to your control pannel => mail to add your information.

 

[Durelen]

Are you forwarding it to a pop 3 email account? I forward many accounts into a single pop3 and once it’s set to forward you should not need to set anything else up. Heh you can bounce it all over the net if you want (harder to trace). Just select forward from your yahoo account probably through your web mail and that should theoretically be all there is to it. I just have a free account with Yahoo I use alot so I’m not sure on their specifics.

 

[icebreaker]

I have it set to forward to my main email but when i respond to people it doesnt show my ministry email it shows my main email so people get confussed.

I checked back at yahoo and they added some in detail instructions on how to set it up through outlook well I am able to send email through my domain account but I cant send it for some reason. a screen comes up and asked for my login and password and I give it what i think should be right but it doesnt work.

 

[Durelen]

Hmmm… I’m not sure how you would do that. That’s like reverse forwarding or something. I don’t think you can path it in that way. You want to set it up like this?

They send: Email sender account -> account 2 -> account 1 (your primary)
You reply: account 1 -> account 2 -> Email recipient account

Now just replying is not a special function recognized by any email distribution server. All your email client (editor) does is put a “RE:” in the title field and whisks it on its way just as if it was a regular email. So if you sent a reply from account 1 to account 2 it would just return to you as if someone else sent it. In this case you would put account 2 in the send field and not the true destination account you want to send it to. Now what account 2 needs to do is sort all received emails and forward to an account entered in another secondary field which is the recipient for the reply. Forwarding mainly just takes everything sent to account 2 and sends it to account 1. I’m not an email server expert (just have a pop3 distribution server set up on my home Linux server) but I’ve never seen send used this way with out some custom script.

What you seem to be doing is replying directly from account 1 to email recipient. They send to account 2 which by default sends everything to account 1. You hit reply to sender and it uses account 1 to send directly to the original senders account (look at the send field).

Easy fix: go directly to account 2 and type “RE:” when you reply back. If Yahoo can do something more than this than please post their instructions, I’m intrigued.

 

[Jesus-is-the-best]

hmm...did you pay for this? Because we have a pop 3 e-mail and it works fine though outlook express. But in order to do that, you must pay a yearly $20.00 fee. Its very nice it lets you download it then view it offline. But if you did not pay then go to mail.yahoo.com and log in.

I'm sorry but I have no other sugestions..

Good luck!
God Bless-
Clayton

 

[pgp_protector]

well you can host your domain at 1and1.com (Free for 3 years IF you sign up before the 21st), then you can host both your website, and use the POP / SMTP E-Mail accounts however you want.

You will just need to point the DNS Servers to the 1and1 servers.