Sending email from a domain that I own (but no account for it on iPhone)

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Sending email from a domain that I own (but no account for it on iPhone)

iOS 8.1.3, iPhone 6

I'd like to be able to send email from the iPhone's mail app using a FROM address of abc@mydomain.com. I own mydomain.com and abc has an email account there.

But I don't want to install an account for abc@mydomain.com on the phone (it's a POP account which would involve a lot of fetching, among other reasons).

Any way to accomplish this on the iPhone?

(FYI, GMail allows this, and provides a procedure for verifying that the user actually controls the email address.)

Thanks / Tom

iPhone 6, iOS 8.1.3

Posted on Mar 5, 2015 5:58 PM

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ckuan

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Mar 5, 2015 6:00 PM in response to TJH-NYC

No. You need to setup the account on iPhone to use it.

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ckuan

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Mar 5, 2015 6:03 PM in response to ckuan

You can set the Outgoing server settings correctly and leave the Incoming server blank.

So you can send but not receive e-mails

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Mar 6, 2015 10:55 AM in response to ckuan

Thanks, that works!

Well, not exactly. I had to fill in the outgoing server settings, but used a bad password. The iPhone reported that the account might not work properly, but it did light up DONE and I was able to save the config.

So now when I'm in an app that allows email, I can scroll through the available "FROM" settings and pick the one I need.

(I just hope this is not taking advantage of a bug in the setup dialog which Apple will close in a future release.)

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ckuan

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Mar 6, 2015 3:45 PM in response to TJH-NYC

You are welcome.

Incoming and Outgoing server uses different ports and it is known that some user can receive but not send and vice versa due to bad configuration.

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