08-30-2005, 04:02 PM | #1 |
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How to send e-mails from any address using Gmail's SMTP server
A little while ago Lifehacker posted instruction how you could use Gmail's SMTP server to send mail from any e-mail address. Drawback: Google would always rewrite your From: address back to your original Gmail address, kinda defeating our original idea. Last week then, Google added a new feature allowing Gmail users to add multiple e-mail addys and to choose one from a drop-down list when sending a message via the Gmail interface. What hasn't been mentioned yet is that once you've added another verified e-mail address to your Gmail account, Gmail's SMTP server would happily forward the new From: address! And this is how you do it:
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08-30-2005, 08:13 PM | #2 |
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Very nice... thanks for the heads up, Alexander.
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09-01-2005, 06:27 PM | #3 |
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just a friendly reminder... this works only if you use <gmailusername> as your username. If you log into the smtp server useing <gmailusername>@gmail.com, it will rewrite the from address to your gmail account.
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01-20-2006, 01:27 AM | #5 |
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Has it since changed?
I've tried adding a new e-mail with this method but it still rewrites the e-mail address as of Jan 2006. Maybe GMail has since deactivated this capability?
Too bad if they did because a free SMTP server that's not blocked by ISPs all the time (like mine) would be so sweet. |
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