Comments on: Gmail’s “Custom From” System Messed Up By “On Behalf Of” Headers

By: Marty Houston

Marty Houston — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:08:51 +0000

It’s good to know someone else is not satisfied with the Google solution

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:01:18 +0000

I know this is an old post, but I just had to respond:

This *ONLY* works if Google’s mail servers can connect to your SMTP server.

I have tried every combination of SMTP settings and can not get Gmail’s servers to connect to my SMTP servers – so I still get the ‘on behalf of’ crud on every mail I send.

This is a showstopper for me, so I have stopped using Gmail altogether.

By: scott

scott — Sun, 23 May 2010 10:23:39 +0000

the solution is brilliant for the gmail sender issue. i was having problems with my emails being marked as spam but hope this will help

By: Marty Houston

Marty Houston — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:13:22 +0000

Unfortenatly Google hasn’t solved anything. They advise to “Use your other email provider’s SMTP servers.”. Ok, I don’t have another email provider with smtp server. I only got a domain name that I bought.

By: Maksym Taran

Maksym Taran — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:19:39 +0000

Except they haven’t solved the problem. When your alternate address is a *Gmail* address, you still can’t apply the fix as in the blog post. This is completely idiotic and I’ve tried to badger Google about it to no avail so far.

By: Danny Sullivan

Danny Sullivan — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:53:39 +0000

Google has now solved this problem. See here:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/send-mail-from-another-address-without.html

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:36:50 +0000

yeah this IS stupid especially if your other email address is a Google Apps account which is coming from the same server anyway

By: ab

ab — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:12:23 +0000

I also find this quite annoying. I use sneakemail to create multiple aliases, and I can’t send emails from gmail without exposing my real address.

By: hulki

hulki — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:06:51 +0000

Gmail has messed up the mail consolidation feature by doing this. I switched over to Yahoo Mail, they have included the mail consolidation in the free mail service. It works great.

By: endolith

endolith — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:07:55 +0000

Two things:
1. If you’re logged into a Gmail address, and sending from another Gmail address, there is no reason why they should include these headers. The mail is being sent from the Gmail servers regardless of what account you happen to be logged into.
2. If they allowed you to enter server information for your other accounts, like any normal email program, you could send from the correct servers and wouldn’t need to include this header information, either. It’s really bad of them to be sending your (possibly private) email addresses to people without your knowledge. For instance, say I have a real name address and a pseudonym address. I don’t want people I interact with in real life to be able to google stuff under my pseudonym, and I don’t want online people to be able to google my real life name and address.