UK Broadband

I have only just moved to Sky Broadband, managed to configure a new business related email account using MS Outlook 2003, it is for a new company I am setting up from home.

I have been sending & receiving emails fine, but noticed that despite setting up the account under a .co.uk address, all of my emails from that account are from sky.com, took 45 mins & 2 calls for someone at Sky to tell me that they are unable to help as they do not support this package!

Despite 2 calls I still can't believe this is right and I wanted to see whether anyone out there might be able to shed some light??

By the way, shocking customer service culminating in the most arrogant person in SKY cancellations, awful!!!!!

These e-mail addresses provided by ISP's are a big no no if you are going to be in business for a long time. Go for Google's Gmail premium service and use your own domain for e-mails and use the gmail client. Thats what I do and I am extremely happy with the service and the spam filters in place are the best in the world.

Expenses :

Buying the domain : mynewbusiness.co.uk for $10 per year

Google's Premium gmail service for businesses : depends on number of e-mail addresses you want using your domain

After doing the above you can create e-mail addresses using gmail platform which would look like yourname@mynewbusiness.co.uk

Do give me a shout if you need more help on this and to be honest I wouldnt bother with sky e-mail address and their customer service.. they are an ISP and thats what they are good at.. need an e-mail address? Go for Gmail... they are the best.