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In short: In Gmail, is there a way to let the "send from" address change automatically depending on which of my accounts it was sent to?

In long:

I recently joined a team (of developers) and they provided me with an email address on their domain (for if I have business with a client or something).

  • Anything sent to me@team.com is forwarded by the team.com mail server
  • I'm using Gmails "send mail as" functionality to send email through smtp.team.com.
  • I receive emails and I can send them, so that works
  • I have my default "send as" address setup as me@Gmail.com, which I would like to keep since I send 90% of my mail through there.

Now I'm wondering how to do the following, if at all possible:

  • when I receive an email at me@team.com (as opposed to me@Gmail.com), and I reply to it, my "send as" address will change automatically to me@team.com
  • I can do it manually, but I know I'm going to forget sooner or later, confusing the hell out of people since the team lets me use a pseudonym.

I hope my question makes sense, and I'm sure it's easily answered by a "no, not possible" or "yes, option X in tab Y".

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Possible duplicate: webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/3417/… – Al Everett Apr 28 '11 at 14:00
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Possible duplicate: webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/2601/… – Al Everett Apr 28 '11 at 14:01
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Yes

In your Gmail settings, under "Accounts and Import", if you have multiple "send mail as" accounts set up you can choose to always default to your Gmail account or to respond with the account to which the message was sent.

"send from" Gmail settings

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Nice, thanks. That probably means there's no way to do it on a per-account basis? I have several legacy accounts that dump into my more 'permanent' gmail, so ideally I would answer those with my main account, and only the 'team' account with a different address... – joon Apr 28 '11 at 13:57
Correct, although if you haven't set them up as "send as" accounts, it'll default to your main address. – Al Everett Apr 28 '11 at 14:00
hadn't thought of that. As Iḿ trying to discourage people to use my old accounts there is no reason to have them as send-as (except for unsubscribing to spammy newsletters). This is perfect. – joon Apr 28 '11 at 14:02
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