RE: Problems with e-mail aliases

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"Arthur TS" wrote:

> I have recently bought a new laptop with Windows 7 pre-installed. As Outlook
> Express is no longer available I have downloaded Live Mail Beta and it has
> installed fine. I have set it up to access my ISP e-mail server (pop/smtp -
> no encyption) and this works fine. My problem occurs in trying to swet the
> account up with an alias for my e-mail address (something I have always done
> on previous packages).
>
> E.G. My e-mail address is . I own the domain
> smith.co.uk and wish to use the e-mail address . Any mail
> sent to that address is forwarded automatically by my domain holding service
> to the zombiecorp address and I receive it. When I send mail outbound, I
> want to use the smith.co.uk address. WLM doesn't seem to let me do this. I
> can set the "Reply Address" field, but if I set the "E-mail Address" field,
> the outbound mail fails to authenticate as follows
>
> The message could not be sent because the server rejected the sender's email
> address. The sender's email address was ''.
>
> Subject 'test'
> Server Error: 553
> Server Response: 553 #5.1.8 Domain of sender address <> does
> not exist
> Server: 'smtp.zombiecorp.co.uk
> Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x800CCC78
> Protocol: SMTP
> Port: 25
> Secure(SSL): No
>
> This seems to indicate to me that WLM is using the "E-mail Address" field as
> part of the log-on for out-going mail, although incoming mail still works
> fine no matter what I set this field to. I have WLM correctly set up to
> authenticate the incoming and outgoing mail.
>
> Is this a problem in WLM, or am I missing something blindingly obvious here.
> Any help gratefully received. Thanks in advance.

I responded in your original thread "Problems with e-mail alias in WLM beta".
There is no moderator in this forum (newsgroup, actually).

Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
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"Arthur TS" wrote in message news:BB807345-272D-499D-94DA-...

Sorry - this has posted multiple time as my Internet Explorer kept saying
"connection failed" when I attempted to post. Could a moderator please
delete the previous three threads?

"Arthur TS" wrote:

> I have recently bought a new laptop with Windows 7 pre-installed. As Outlook
> Express is no longer available I have downloaded Live Mail Beta and it has
> installed fine. I have set it up to access my ISP e-mail server (pop/smtp -
> no encyption) and this works fine. My problem occurs in trying to swet the
> account up with an alias for my e-mail address (something I have always done
> on previous packages).
>
> E.G. My e-mail address is . I own the domain
> smith.co.uk and wish to use the e-mail address . Any mail
> sent to that address is forwarded automatically by my domain holding service
> to the zombiecorp address and I receive it. When I send mail outbound, I
> want to use the smith.co.uk address. WLM doesn't seem to let me do this. I
> can set the "Reply Address" field, but if I set the "E-mail Address" field,
> the outbound mail fails to authenticate as follows
>
> The message could not be sent because the server rejected the sender's email
> address. The sender's email address was ''.
>
> Subject 'test'
> Server Error: 553
> Server Response: 553 #5.1.8 Domain of sender address <> does
> not exist
> Server: 'smtp.zombiecorp.co.uk
> Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x800CCC78
> Protocol: SMTP
> Port: 25
> Secure(SSL): No
>
> This seems to indicate to me that WLM is using the "E-mail Address" field as
> part of the log-on for out-going mail, although incoming mail still works
> fine no matter what I set this field to. I have WLM correctly set up to
> authenticate the incoming and outgoing mail.
>
> Is this a problem in WLM, or am I missing something blindingly obvious here.
> Any help gratefully received. Thanks in advance.