Setting up an e-mail alias?

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.

This is not a WLM issue. That needs to be addressed with your ISP. My
provider only allows certain domains in outgoing mail... to prevent spamming
and misuse. If I were to send my messages using "" I would
experience a similar outcome-even if I'm connected to my ISP's network.

"Arthur TS" <Arthur > wrote in message
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> 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.