Right... i am in the process of setting up a site for a company. They have asked me to set up there email address.

Here is what i have done so far, i have set up the emails to be forwarded from the akward webmail info@xxxxxxx.com to personaladdress@hotmail.com as they requested.

What i would like to do is make it so if they replied from personaladdress@hotmail.com it would automatically forward onto the original sender that sent the email to info@xxxxxxx.com.

This would save them the process of logging on to some long winded webmail program.

Can anyone recommend any ways to do this?

Thanks,

Dave

You can't do it. Not sure this will work at all if they are really using hotmail.

What they need to do is setup their mail program with the second account. Then when they get mail they choose to respond using the smtp at the info@xxxxxxx.com This is selected in their mail program.

I think that will work when it is forwarded. I know it works when you have multiple mailboxes dumping into one copy of Outhouse express.

If they're using some web based personal email (e.g. Hotmail / Yahoo etc.) it probably isn't possible - but if they're downloading it using an email client via POP3 / IMAP it should be pretty easy to do as Colbyt said above.

The only exception I can think of to this is Gmail, where you can set it to use various outgoing addresses; but this will reveal the personal Gmail account address to most people as it'll display from "x@gmail.com on behalf of y@properdomain.com".

Another point to consider is that Hotmail et al. tend to have pretty aggressive spam filtering that can see genuine mails get junked/lost at times. It would therefore probably be best to keep email under your full control and download it directed from the domain (i.e. use POP3 or IMAP) rather than forwarding elsewhere.

I think its in your Outlook configuration.

Do you want to send mails from hotmail on behalf of xxxxxx.com company? Or what?

I think he has already setup forward on his domain account to sent email message to hotmail account. Now what he is saying is that, if user replied from hotmail account the sent message should also be forwarded to his email account.
Tell me if I am wrong in guessing your issue, OP.

Anyway, in hotmail you need to add your email id in cc or bcc field to send that message to your domain account.

Yes you are right here. But the reply from free mail service can be sent to 2 different adreces (one of them is email adress he is interested in)

Originally Posted by hostabove

I think he has already setup forward on his domain account to sent email message to hotmail account. Now what he is saying is that, if user replied from hotmail account the sent message should also be forwarded to his email account. =

If it is done, when the reply reaches his email gets forwarded to the account hosted by you, the same will be forwarded back to his hotmail, creating a loop. Even otherwise, this has to be setup from his hotmail account. |Doesnt make sense at all, explain it to him.

Why can't you just create him a POP3 account, that way he can get it via webmail or via their email client?