Melville
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Registered: 4th Jun 03
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
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My old man needs an email account that can be set up in outlook. Doesnt have one with the ISP as it was broadband only.
Any reccomendations? Its for business use so something faiirly professional looking would be good. Dont know why his work cant supply him with one but they said they can only fwd a work one onto him and not allow him to send from it.
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abdus
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Registered: 23rd Feb 06
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lycos?
gmail?
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Melville
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Registered: 4th Jun 03
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
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Anyone got any gmail invites?
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abdus
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Registered: 23rd Feb 06
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quote:
Originally posted by Melville
Anyone got any gmail invites?
send me a u2u and give me your mail address
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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Tell his work to sort it out, anything else looks very amateur.
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Sam
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quote:
Originally posted by Melville
My old man needs an email account that can be set up in outlook. Doesnt have one with the ISP as it was broadband only.
Any reccomendations? Its for business use so something faiirly professional looking would be good. Dont know why his work cant supply him with one but they said they can only fwd a work one onto him and not allow him to send from it.
Are you saying they will allow him POP3 access but no SMTP access (ie. can receive email but not send)?
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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Sounds like you need an SMTP relay to send the branded mail, yes.
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Melville
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Registered: 4th Jun 03
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
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They said that they wont give out any of the pop3 details and that they will only forward on his work email to one that he has set up.
The IT dept sounds like a joke to be honest. Its a hige company too :roll:
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MikeD
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Registered: 18th Aug 02
Location: Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire
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a big company on POP3 sounds rubbish
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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quote:
Originally posted by Melville
they wont give out any of the pop3 details
He must have this on the work computer, look in the account setup on that?
The biggest problem with be getting mail to leave the computer at home without having an outgoing SMTP server. You can buy this just like you can buy webspace, or of course you could upgrade your bb package.
Or of course this company could do it. Is it essential that you dad does work at home with that kind of response from IT support - he should say fine don't worry about it!
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MikeD
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Registered: 18th Aug 02
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what company does he work for?
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Melville
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Registered: 4th Jun 03
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
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Deb, the people that do all the soap and hand stuff.
Ian, he doesnt have a works computer, its mine. He needs to complete his monthly reports etc and email them to the head office. This of course is no problem sending from a private email account.
Recently however, he has been told that as much ordering should be done via email as its quicker and cheaper. So he was told to tell his customers to email the orders to him who could then make sure they were correct and then email to h/o. :roll:
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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quote:
Originally posted by Melville
he was told to tell his customers to email the orders to him who could then make sure they were correct and then email to h/o.
"Hi I represent a large national company supplying highly professional business-to-business hygine solutions, you can reach me at dj_soapman_2006@hotmail.co.uk" 
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