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Send Company Email From Gmail

Customized From Address

When my access to O'Reilly's email server went out today, I still managed to send a message to tech support from my O'Reilly email address. Since I'd already added my other address to Gmail, here's all I needed to do:

Log in to your Gmail account at mail.google.com.
Click Compose.
Use the drop-down menu in the From field to select the address you'd like to use to send the message.
Compose and send!

Sure, it's more of a tip than a hack, since it's built into Gmail, but it sure saved me in a pinch today, so I thought it qualified for a Hackszine mention.

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Posted by | Feb 26, 2007 07:05 AM
Gmail, Life, Lifehacker, Productivity | Permalink | Comments (4)

Comments

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Posted by: digit.al on February 26, 2007 at 9:18 AM

It is a good feature, I use it all the time, however don't do this if you don't want your GMail address to be known to the recipient.
Even though the From field will show your other email address, your GMail address will be shown in the header of your email under the Sender field.
Of course, not many people know how to see the header of email but still...

Posted by: mclazarus on February 26, 2007 at 11:26 AM

If your recipient uses Outlook, they will have the gmail address broadcast to them as the From display will be:
From: user@gmail.com On Behalf of Joe User

It is because of this behavior of outlook and a boss who gets all itchy at something like this, that I don't do this with gmail.

Posted by: rodbotic on February 26, 2007 at 12:19 PM

I use Gmail for my work email.

I just get all the myname@work.com
forwarded to my work@gmail.com address

when ever the email server goes down. tones of co-workers run to my desk to get their messages sent out.

Posted by: AcidRaZor on February 27, 2007 at 4:57 AM

Having this feature might be nice, but most email servers nowadays checks for SPF records. If O'Reilly's SPF record is setup, you stand a good chance of the email not getting delivered at all due to the fact that Gmail's server is not authorized to send out email as someone from your domain.

A lot of administrators are starting to setup these SPF records as standard to curb spam that does not originate from the server it claims to be from and it would prove fruitless and frustrating if you can't send email out from your Gmail like this. So beware.