email question

[Broons Bane]

I realise that this isn't specifically outlook, but my useless ISP cannot
answer my questions.



My question is do ISP's sometimes check the email address when you try to
receive pop mail?



My pop settings have the correct account and password, but a different email
address to the one the ISP has provided (it is my domain email address and I
forward the email to my ISP email address). I was intermittently getting
questioned about my account name and password, but when I changed the email
address to the ISP one the problem went away.



I have got around it by putting my real email address in the reply to field,
but this is not very elegant.

 

[DL]

If you own a domain, with a domain email add. often the pop3 setting is 'yr
domain specific' whilst smpt is 'ISP specific'. This for an account setup
for yr domain email add.
eg; Account ; (e-mail address removed)
Pop3: mail.atmydomain.com
smpt: mail.isp
Account name: domain specific
Password: domain specific

I work the other way, my ISP email is forwarded to my domain add.

 

[paul]

When specifically were you getting questioned - when you
were forwarding the email you receive through your domain
to your ISP email or when trying to receive messages from
your domain?

 

[Broons Bane]

When specifically were you getting questioned - when you
were forwarding the email you receive through your domain
to your ISP email or when trying to receive messages from
your domain?

I should have explained better.

email@mydomain gets forwarded to email@myisp

I get intermittent errors when I try to receive pop mail from myisp when I
put email@mydomain in the email (not account) field of the email account.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I should have explained better.

email@mydomain gets forwarded to email@myisp

I get intermittent errors when I try to receive pop mail from myisp
when I put email@mydomain in the email (not account) field of the
email account.

The email address in the account by which you receive mail should have no
bearing on whether otr not you can receive mail. It should only affect
outgoing mail. The only time I can think it might affact receiving is when
the ISP uses the entire address as username (like SBC Yahoo! expects
'(e-mail address removed)' as the username. However, that still has no
bearing on what's in the "E-mail Address" field of the account.