Re: Question about sending emails at work and at home

Hungerdunger wrote:
I am self-employed and access my email both at home and at work. My ISP is
Demon.

When I had a dial-up connection at home and at work, I was able to send and
receive emails at both sites using the one account.

Earlier this year I changed to Broadband at home. I am still able to
retrieve my emails at work using another ISP (Force 9) but the only way I
can send them using my normal email address is to use Demon Dial-up
companion which charges me 5p for every minute I'm on line.

Your default SMTP server needs to be the one belonging to the ISP service who you are using at that time, i.e. at work default needs to be smtp.force9.xxxxx When your at home default smtp server needs to be smtp.demon.xxxxxx

It doesn't matter what pop server you use at home or work as they are called up individually, however ISP's will not allow you access to their smtp server when you are not logged on to them (the ISP whose smtp server you want to use).

I now want to change to Broadband at work, but if I understand the situation
corrrectly, even if I stick with Demon, I will need to set up a completely
separate account, and therefore will have to use a different host name.
Presumably I will still be able to receive emails addressed to my original
account, but what happens if I want to send emails? Won't I be sending
emails with a different address which is going to confuse recipients? I.e.
currently my email address is [my name]@[old host name].demon.co.uk. I
assume that to send emails from work I would need to use [my name]@[new host
name].demon.co.uk

Am I right in this? If so, is there any solution?

Again it's all down to the smtp settings, as long as the smtp server you're using to send emails is the same as the ISP you are logged onto then it does not matter what email addy you are sending from. I don't use Outlook Express so I cant tell you how to set the default smtp server, I imagine it's by going to your user account and making sure the smtp server set as 'default' matches the ISP service your logged onto and of course the same at work.

So at work your default smtp server should belong to Force 9 and at home your default smtp server should belong to Demon.

Charlie
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