Web Based Email For More than One Address
Posted on December 21st, 2006by Michael Gray in SEO
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In addition to playing with my feedreader I’ve also been playing with my email lately and I’m equally frustrated at not being able to do what I want.
Now I’m open to using a completely web based email or using an outlook/exchange server type setup. However the point where everything breaks down is sending from multiple addresses. For example if I have mike@abc.com forward into the info@xyz.com account I want to be able to reply as/from mike@abc.com. Yes gmail does let you do this but only kind of. IF you send an email to someone using outlook you get the goofy “on behalf of” header (Danny explains it better here Gmail’s “Custom From” System Messed Up By “On Behalf Of” Headers). Sometimes it’s just as simple as me wanting to keep info@xyz.com as a role account not attached to a person. Other times I want to completely shield myself from a domain, for example I don’t want everyone to know webmaster@top-dollar-keyword-domain.com is me. I know I’m not the first or only one who wants this, so what are you other folks using?
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December 21st, 2006 at 3:14 pm
“For example if I have mike@abc.com forward into the info@xyz.com”
Gray - how did you get those nice 3 letter domains?
“webmaster@top-dollar-keyword-domain.com is me”
I have this one at .org
December 21st, 2006 at 4:04 pm
Can’t you just sent up all your email accounts in Outlook Express or whatever and just uncheck “include this account when receiving or synchronising email” so the account will be availabe to send mail, but it wont pick any up.
December 21st, 2006 at 4:11 pm
sorry missed the bit in the title where you want it web based
December 21st, 2006 at 4:18 pm
Damn! I’ve never noticed that… and Oops!!..
I’ve never tried from forwarded accounts, but I always choose the “Account” from where I’m sending the email.
One easy solution (in Outlook) would be duplicate a working account, and change the address and name, so you have the SMTP of the original account available, but i think this mails are commonly grabbed as spam… not sure.
December 21st, 2006 at 4:57 pm
Oh same for me! I hit the submit button too late
(it was web based doh)
December 21st, 2006 at 10:21 pm
Not sure if this will help or not, but JasonD made an interesting post about Google apps/email for domains here:
http://www.widgetlogic.com/articles/7/1/Google-Apps-for-your-Domain
December 22nd, 2006 at 2:10 am
While the title says “Web Based…” the second paragraph says “either”…
I’m using Thunderbird to check email across multiple domains all on the same “page”. Thus, no need to have mike@abc.com forwarded to info@xyz.com… and no need to worry about the reply. Just click on the message and reply… it goes back out through the original.
And since I setup the “catchall” on the server correctly (I think at least)… things sent to “whateveryouwantincludingmisspellings@defg.com” all get funneled to my “dummy@defg.com” account.
Throw in the fact that my feeds go to thier own folder in Thunderbird… and it all wraps up nicely.
And it’s free.
December 22nd, 2006 at 5:02 am
Personally I use RoundCube . It’s still an early development but apart from the odd random snapshot it’s pretty solid. I just create a sending profile for any address that gets fed into my inbox and I can reply like it’s a real account. Most of the features are personal taste I guess but I find it very comfortable and it’s my main mail client a lot of the time.
December 22nd, 2006 at 7:57 am
thunderbird didn’t work for me
http://www.wolf-howl.com/tools/open-office-and-thunderbird-not-ready-for-consumer-use/
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:43 am
You can do that with Squirrelmail actually. There is an option to set up Multiple Identities and then when you send a new email or reply to one you can choose which one you want to use.
The webhost that I use has this installed by default but it is also something that you can install on your own. http://www.squirrelmail.org/
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:58 am
Pegasus
December 29th, 2006 at 9:13 am
I use Gmail and Outlook to view/send emails.
Gmail received emails from all kinds of different addresses I use all consolidated into one master account.
Outlook has a range of accounts that I send from, but in reality it’s all just going thru one Gmail account.
Works a treat for me, and I know with Gmail it’s not about to go off the air.
December 29th, 2006 at 6:51 pm
You think someone would create an all in one web based e mail progrm that included all of the most important features and not just most of them. It seems like a combination of outlook and gmail would be it.
It has to be web based these days. It has to have different folders/ sorting options. MOST IMPORTANTLY: It has to allow you to pick up mail from all your accounts. And it has to allow you to send e mail from any account independently without any relation to your other accounts.
Wait, did I mention it has to be FREE?
December 31st, 2006 at 12:09 am
I haven’t found a web based solution that works for me - I just check squirrelmail on the office server when I am travelling and send lots of cursing messages to my admin
I use thunderbird under OSX as the least sucky solution. I used to use Gyazmail (I’m a mac girl) but it still doesn’t do IMAP and I lost too much in the last laptop crash to continue Popping.
I used to use The Bat on Windows - loved a lot of its features, but the last time I was back on a windows machine and had a puddle with it the UI seemed dreadfully clunky. Don’t know about it right now.
If someone would port Kmail to OSX that would be nice to try again, but I don’t have time to do it myself.
But web based? The multiple-account thing seems insurmountable and is my top requirement.
Overall, Thunderbird seems to be like Democracy ‘a very bad system, but all the others are much worse’
January 5th, 2007 at 5:34 am
Have you taken a look at http://www.fastmail.fm - they have a lot of cool features and offer the ability to send from multiple addresses and so on. Definitely worth checking out, IMHO.
Ian