Outlook Question - Is This Possible

Atomic · 1 Mar 2007 at 11:16

Hello,

I doubt this will make sense, but here goes anyway.

At mywork we've jsut got Outlook setup and email accounts, but am curious to know how they've accomplished some things.

For a start we the e-mail accounts setuop in Outlook over LAN, and as far as I know we're using a basic ISP like Virgin to provide Internet access and email service, but here's the thing.

Our e-mail addresses are like; [email protected]

I thought it would have been [email protected] or something like that.

I go into the pop3 settings and all of that and all is there businessname.co.uk, and obviously my emaila address..there is no sign of an ISP name.

So, I'm guessin that on the admin PC here we have a direct account with our isp (which also can somehow see all the emails sent and received from the other 8 computers on the LAN.) I'm guessing multiple accounts, but I'm really curious to know if it's possible to have an account with an ISP and somehow accross a LAN change the bit after the @

Do you know what I mean?

Voo · 1 Mar 2007 at 11:20

The domain name can be used to create POP3 addresses.

Atomic · 1 Mar 2007 at 11:23

Voo said:
The domain name can be used to create POP3 addresses.

How?

Voo · 1 Mar 2007 at 11:26

Well do you actually know if you are using an ISP for Internet and Email or if you have a proper infrastructure?

You could just speak to your IT support people and find out this information instead of us guessing how your business has been setup.

Atomic · 1 Mar 2007 at 11:34

Voo said:
Well do you actually know if you are using an ISP for Internet and Email or if you have a proper infrastructure?

As far as I know this is the situation

ISP: Virgin for Internet access - General ISP with 50 email address which end in @virgin.net or .co.uk
Hardware: 9 Computers with one of them being Admin PC which can see all email accounts in her inbox(s) in Outlook
network: LAN

I just thought that we have a setup in which we have one account @virgin.net on the Admin PC and somehow over the network on the other LAN computers we have 8 accounts for 8 people which all end in a @businessuk.co.uk name. I just thought the admin PC had been setup kinda as a kind of server or something for this which allowed for the lan computers to have a different part after that @

Is that not possible, and must be a dedicated email server. In the accont options all i see in *** inbound and out bound parts are businessnameuk.co.uk I would have thought it would have had a ISP name in there somewhere or something.

I hope you understand what I'm trying to say.

Dureth · 1 Mar 2007 at 11:41

Nope not even close mate. You have a website at www.businessnameuk.co.uk, the hosting for which will either be able to redirect any email to an email server at your work OR has its own email system setup with pop3 access.

You'd be mad to use an ISP email or a "free" (gmail etc) email for work purposes. Both are far too vulnerable to change, where the website hosting domain name based email can be taken to any ISP and any hosting provider.