Outlook has a feature that lets you set up email accounts to use as the from email for sending mail only, without picking up email.

Under Outlook, Tools, Send/Receive options, you can specify which email accounts you only want to send and not receive.

This is handy if you support many websites.

You can set up mail from all your websites to forward to one email box.

You can set up from email addresses for each website to send outgoing mail.

That way customers can send to and receive email from each of your websites individually. While you only need to check one mailbox to receive all your mail.

Windows Live Mail makes this even easier.

 In Windows Live Mail, after you create your email account, go back in to Change the email account you just created.

At the bottom of the General tab page, uncheck the box "Include this account when receiving mail or synchronizing".

Now you can send with that email address and Windows Live will not try to receive email.

Windows Live does make you include the outgoing email information even though you are not going to use it, so you can make up anything for the POP server and password.

If you have a mail program that requires an incoming mail server, you can set up a dummy email account called empty@mydomain.com.

Give it the minimum quota. Do not tell anyone about this email address so it will not get any email.

Use this as your incoming email account for all your From Only email addresses. This will let you fill out your account set up page and avoid you getting any mail on the email addresses you only want to send out from.

By Andrew Weitzen (c) 2010

Weitzen is the publisher of several online Internet journals including: InternetHandholding.com, DomainNames.gs, DotNetNuke.bz, Programmer.bz, Software.vg, WebHosting.vg