I am a real newbie with shopping for web hosting services, so this may be a really dumb question.

Are there some web hosts that, although they allow you to recieve e-mail addressed to your web site's e-mail accounts, don't allow your outgoing e-mails to have that same e-mail address? It seems like I had this experience before with a web site a while back and can't remember the details.

If some sites have this, and others don't, what is the right thing to look for which will tell me if this is the case? I obviously want my sent e-mails to be "from" my e-mail address which is tied to my domain name.

Thanks for any comments regarding this subject! :)

Judd

Welcome to the board.

I guess you are looking for email facility, to send and receive emails (with your own domain name). If so, you need to confirm with the host that it will offer you both POP3 (email accounts) and SMTP service (feature to send email) with the plan.

Hope this helped. All the best.

Note that you can usually set up a 'reply' address in your email program (such as Outlook Express, etc.), which takes care of this also. Some ISPs (like Earthlink, etc.) don't allow you to use other SMTP servers, so you might *have* to set it up this way.

Originally posted by jspittler
I am a real newbie with shopping for web hosting services, so this may be a really dumb question.

Are there some web hosts that, although they allow you to recieve e-mail addressed to your web site's e-mail accounts, don't allow your outgoing e-mails to have that same e-mail address? It seems like I had this experience before with a web site a while back and can't remember the details.

If some sites have this, and others don't, what is the right thing to look for which will tell me if this is the case? I obviously want my sent e-mails to be "from" my e-mail address which is tied to my domain name.

Thanks for any comments regarding this subject! :)

Judd

Many hosting companies won't let you send mails using their sendmail, because of email relaying. This is quite unfortunate but this protects them and you against bankrupcy due to bandwidth abuse (think spammers!). We, for instance, recommand that our clients use their ISP's SMTP server (either they allow relaying and you can use your beloved domain-linked address in the 'form' field, or you can use the 'reply to' field). We also provide web-based mail, and if our clients have static IPs we can allow SMTP from these addresses.

-Chris.