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:
- Log in to your Gmail account.
- Click 'Settings' along the top of any page, and then select the 'Accounts' tab.
- Click 'Add another email address' in the 'Send mail as:' section.
- Enter your full name in the 'Name:' field, and the email address you'd like to send messages from in the 'Email address:' field.
- Click 'Next Step >>,' and then click 'Send Verification' to complete the process. Gmail will send a verification message to your other email address to confirm that you'd like to add it to your Gmail account.
- Now go to your e-mail client software to setup your e-mail account.
- Under e-mail address, use one of the verified e-mails you've added to your Gmail account.
- Under outgoing mail smtp server, use smtp.gmail.com. Since it requires SMTP authorization, use your Gmail account as username (e.g. yourname@gmail.com) and your Gmail password as password. You can turn TSL on or off.