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How do I hide my IP address & host from the emails I send?

Hello All and Hope you can help

I run a small internet business from home and have Smartermail set up to send emails to my clients. I have noted (when sending a test email to myself) that my home IP address and host name are visibile which I do not want showing.

How can I hide this please or do I have to sign up for a new email service?  I currently have the Smartermail emails directed to outlook as I find easier and thought this was the problem but no. Whether I send emails via Outlook or Smartermail the details still show

Thank you in advance for any advice
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Thank you for your swift response tigernmatt

I don't really want to send email to my clients with an email address ending in yahoo or google mail as I don't believe it looks professional to end my company name with such. I have company email addresses ending in .com and thought by sending through Smartermail it would go thru their server/host and not show my details

I 'googled' this question and there seemed to be some answers regarding 'proxy servers' but as a novice I am unsure of the answers, yet wondered if this was perhaps a solution to my problem

Thank you again and any further advise is much appreciated
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Hello Again Tigermatt

Firstly, thank you so much for your time answering my questions

I clicked on the link you kindly provided but WAY over my head - I have no knowledge of MX records (first time I have heard of them!) and would not know where to start!

Re your third paragraph - "sending email via webmail "- do you mean having an email facility set up on my website so all replies etc I send comes directly through there?.  

Also, Exchange Hosting - sorry to sound a complete dunce but again, how would I go about investigating if this would be the solution.  As a new business I am obviously conscious of costs (I have just googled).  Another question, is this something that the supplier of my .com address would do?

Again, thank you for your time and please accept my apologies if my questions may sound naive (or a bit dumb!).  
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Hello sk raja raja

Thanks for your reply

I am interested to know further on how to configure a business name with gmail, how do I do this please?
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Hello Aleghart

Brilliant - done so far - Now does this mean I will still receive all my usual mail through Outlook but will be able to answer via google, or do I have to change the forwarding settings in googlemail?

Thanks in advance
Hello Again

Just done a test and thats not working

Email header stated:- "mydomaincom@googlemail.com on behalf of "my domain name" then my domain.com email address?
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Thank you for all time and trouble taken in answering my question.  I am currently 'investigating' all solutions posted

Again, manythanks

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