setting up domain name to windows mail

[Glenn]

I have recently bought a domain name. How do I set it up so that the emails
are sent and received from my sky.com mailbox, addressed to and from my
domain name as opposed to @sky.com?

 

[Sam Hobbs]

Note that my email address is for the domain "SamHobbs.org"; is that the
type of thing you are asking about? You need a hosting service for a web
site for your domain. This has nothing whatsoever to do with Windows Mail.
So you need to ask elsewhere but I will get you started.

You might find a hosting service for free but their email service would not
be good. For nearly all web site hosting services, there is also an email
server and related services. Watch out for the cheaper ones; they might be
used for spam and if so then other people might not be able to send email to
you. Yes, that is not logical but it happens quite often; if an email server
is used to send spam, then many other email servers, such as Comcast, will
refuse to send email to the spamming servers. So you might find hosting
services for as little as $3 (USD; I don't know the equivalent Euro dollars
or whatever) a month but the email service might be nearly useless. My
SamHobbs.org works but there are some servers that do not use it. There are
some email-only services but you probably don't save much if anything to use
them.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

The cheapest way to do this is for free, with limitations.
Assuming your domain is registered with a good registrar, the
registrar will give you unlimited forwarding of your domain email
to any address (such as (e-mail address removed)).
Then set up a new account in Windows Mail that receives the
forwarded mail, and will send using the sky.com SMTP server.
Assuming Sky permits using your domain as the From address,
your recipients see only the domain address.

 

[Sam Hobbs]

Yes, that might be sufficient. I am sorry that I did not understand the
question originally. Yes, incoming messages can be forwarded in that manner
but I am skeptical that sending messages will work the way that Glenn wants
it to.



The cheapest way to do this is for free, with limitations.
Assuming your domain is registered with a good registrar, the
registrar will give you unlimited forwarding of your domain email
to any address (such as (e-mail address removed)).
Then set up a new account in Windows Mail that receives the
forwarded mail, and will send using the sky.com SMTP server.
Assuming Sky permits using your domain as the From address,
your recipients see only the domain address.