Hi All,
Sparing you my usual rant about tacky POP3 names (yes, I can heard the
applause from here ;>) I have been beavering away at trying to find a
workaround to avoid showing the name for the extremely efficient
"devilsplayground.net'. It seems a pity not to put such a seemingly
reliable account to use.
I received the excellent suggestion recently to employ the use of an
aesthetically pleasing forwarding address, along with a number of specific
recommendations for the latter, on the basis that the e-mail client only
puts out the 'forward'. That being so, one could collect from the POP3
account and reply from the client - no one would actually see the POP3
domain (unless they grubbed around in the headers).
Eagerly, I leaped into action, requesting the forwarding service to send my
e-mail to the 'devil...', as it were. So far so good - I can collect all
the e-mail from the 'devil...' POP account.
However, although the e-mail is addressed to
'[EMAIL PROTECTED] **and** I have the "ReplyTo:" in the
'devil...' account as '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', what the recipient actually sees
in the "From" field is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", large as life and twice as ugly.
Buried deep within the headers that are usually not viewed is the
teeny-tiny "Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
This was the case whether I composed a new message or hit the "Reply to:'
button
Just in case it was Calypso giving me a hard time <gasp>, I checked it out
in A-K Mail, The Bat! and Foxmail. All showed the "From:" as the 'devil...'
When I changed the setting in the 'devil...' account to
**From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ** the 'devil's...' SMTP server would not accept
it to send.
Trying a slightly different approach, I logged on to the 'devil's...'
website and changed the "From:" there. That time it did go through and
showed up at the recipient as "From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" However, I want to
be able to do this without going anywhere near the website or what's the
point of a POP account?
I would make further inquiries to the kindly person who suggested the
forwarding approach but would not want to cause the "cast your bread upon
the waters and be nibbled to death by ducks" syndrome. Therefore I am
hoping that the estimable List members can cobble together either a
solution in words of one syllable or a frank, "It can't be done."
If there is actually a way to make this work, then this account may prove
useful to others on the List and I might find myself in better company at
the "devilsplayground.net".
As always, I value all your suggestions and comments.
A - even more boneheaded than usual in Canada
