I own a domain name. I currently have all inbound e-mail being sent to
that domain forwarded to my current e-mail address. I am wondering if
there is a safe, reliable website where I can write e-mails and make
them appear as if they are coming from my domain name. I am NOT
looking to find an e-mail hosting provider. I am just looking for a
place where I can send an e-mail and define the return address.

I am looking for something web-based (not looking to adjust the
setting on my e-mail client). If anyone has any websites or
suggestions/ideas on how to do this, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks.

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Request for Question Clarification by skmitchell-ga on 21 Jun 2002 14:22 PDT

Why don't you want to use your email client?  Most likely your email
client can be configured to support multiple accounts.  I use Outlook,
for example, and have a number of email addresses I can send messages
out as.  If you would like me to answer your question for email
clients, let me know.

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Clarification of Question by marc10-ga on 21 Jun 2002 15:50 PDT

Since I travel a lot and rarely use one computer, I do not use an
e-mail client to read/write e-mail. Therefore using the settings of a
e-mail client software program is not an option.

This world of global messaging gets more complicated all the time...
The SMTP protocol allows for anyone to claim anything as a From: address,
so in theory, you can simply telnet to port 25 of a relay host and write
your message. The real trick is finding a web-based e-mail provider that
will allow you to preprogram an arbitrary e-mail address...

Almost any small-sized ISP that offers its own web-based e-mail services
will be able to help you, provided you can convince them that you don't
need to transfer your domain.

In particular, forethought.net provides web-based e-mail services for $1
per month which provides exactly the service you are looking for. They may
want to verify that you are the owner of the domain first, since many
sources of spam will spoof other people's return addresses.

    [http://www.forethought.net/]

I would have thought, however, that it would be very inconvenient to read
and send your e-mail from different services. Yahoo! and many other web-based
e-mail providers will host your domain's e-mail services through their
web-based services for a nominal charge as well.

    [http://mail.yahoo.com/]

Do you really need your e-mail address to appear in the From: field or
do you need replies to your e-mails to be sent to your domain name?
In the first case as mentioned by skmitchell, the easiest is to set
your identity in your e-mail client to your domain name address,
regardless of your current e-mail address.
In the second case if you want to use web based e-mails, many e-mail
providers such as yahoo or excite can let you set the Reply-To: field.
If you set it to your domain address, people replying to your e-mails
will automatically reply to that address.

I am indeed looking for my domain to appear in the From: field. I
would like the e-mail to appear that it is actually from my domain. I
realize that digging into the headers will reveal otherwise, but as
long as the From: field is my domain, I would be happy.

You need to have a freelance web developer do this for you.  It's easy
to do in practically any server-side programming language (ASP, PHP
and Perl for example).  It shouldn't cost much.

There probably aren't many websites or services that do this for you
because the header "faking" technique is normally used by spammers. 
That said, my previous company used it for e-mails such as
"auto-reply@business.com", etc..  There are many legitmate uses for
faking the from field, just not many websites that let you do it
because it would be used for spam purposes.  Find a freelance
developer to do it for you.  Make sure he sticks a password on it.

xemion-ga

marc10-ga, I will happily write such a Web page for you on your own
Web site (or on another Web site that you run/own) on a consulting
basis, we can discuss price if you are interested. As mentioned by
other posters, you're likely going to be hard pressed to find an
online service that allows you to specify your own From clause in the
email header.

Also, you might email your Web hosting company and ask them if they
can help you with this.  A number of Web hosts will provide some
online email center where you can send emails from your domain and
receive emails as well.

http://www.fastmail.fm

This site does exactly what you want and much more. 

Create an account with any username. Go to the Options page, then
select the Personalities section to create a new personality. A
personality is basically just the email and name that shows up in the
from field. You may have to delete the default personality, FastMail's
free accounts only allow one. If your really going to use this service
you'll probably want to upgrade to one of the paid for accounts. It's
not that expensive and you get a lot of extra features.

-ishmael

www.webtomail.com does what you want

woops, make that 

www.mail2web.com

try 
http://www.daak.com
And
http://www.mail2web.com
Wou can send emails from these two sites if your domain name has a
POP3 mailbox as well.

Hope it helps!!!

Endymion's MailMan program can do it - either on your server (if you
install it) or on any other server. For example, use it from
Endymion's demo on their server:

http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/demo/mailman.cgi

But first, you will have to login to (any) POP3 account to read mail
(can be in another domain though).

Good luck!

> I am wondering if
> there is a safe, reliable website where I can write e-mails and make
> them appear as if they are coming from my domain name.
Computermail.net <http://www.computermail.net/> or nearly any web
based email service powered by Everyone.net will let you do this. You
can even easily setup web based email access for your own domain
directly with Everyone.net <http://www.everyone.net/>

Relevant URL: http://www.fakemailz.com (Fake Mailz)
You can checkout demo at: http://www.fakemailz.com/demopr.cgi

This should serve as a simple solution to problem described above.

Sharpmail http://www.sharpmail.co.uk is another web bases email
service that lets you send email where you can specify the from field.
Its very reliable with over 6 years online and many thousand members.
They let you compose plain text or html style rich text, alow images
to be uploaded and inserted into your emails.

http://www.sharpmail.co.uk