How to use Gmail's “Send Mail As” with another Gmail account through SMTP without “On Behalf Of”?

Question

Related to this question, I want to remove the "On Behalf Of" when I send an email from another Gmail account via the web ui. So, as of now, my email is being shown as From emailA@gmail.com on behalf of emailB@gmail.com. When inputting the email into the settings, Gmail appears to detect that the email is another Gmail account and does not ask you whether or not to use another SMTP server. Anyone has any ideas on how I can get around this?

Answer 1

It's a long shot, but you can try adding the account with its @googlemail.com address instead of its @gmail.com address.

(Any mail sent to userA@googlemail.com will arrive at userA@gmail.com's address.)

Answer 2

Lifehacker had a couple of suggestions with respect to that - try this article: Gmail removes "On behalf of" from your consolidated inbox

Answer 3

I used to be able to find documentation of this fact, but searches at this time turn up nothing.

Anyway, Google does not support using alternate SMTP settings for sending as another Gmail account. I'm not sure why, though; I just know they don't support it.

Answer 4

OK, so this is easy, but may cost some cash.

The reason that gmail does this is that for security and to stop its servers being marked as spam it need to state the correct "From" address.

You need to specify an SMTP server that google will use to "send" your mail that will allow relays for the address you have chosen. For companies this is easy, for individuals, not so much.

if, like me, you own your own domain you can use a service like DynDNS to fix this issue. If you purchase a Mailhop Outbound account you can add their SMTP service to google for any email address you like.

Once setup in your "Send mail as" list you email will have the words "Mail is sent through: outbound.mailhop.org" under it. You can use the instructions on the Google site for configuring gmail to use this service.

This will remove that pesky "Sent on behalf of" message that we all hate for only $20 per year. Not bad.

Answer 5

Alright, I figured one way to do this. In order for this to work you need an email account without an @gmail.com address. I used a Google Apps account, but another service provider's should be fine as well (e.g. @yahoo.com, @hotmail.com, etc.). The key is, that when you press the "Next Step" button in the "Add another email address you own", it must ask you the "Send mail through your SMTP server?" question. If it does not, you must use some other email provider.

Here are the steps:

1. Press the Send mail from another address button.
2. For the email address, enter in a non-gmail address that you own. It doesn't mater which one you choose, no one will see it. The only thing that is important is that you can access it.
3. Press Next Step.
4. Choose to Send through [domain.com] SMTP servers.
5. Enter in the credentials for the other gmail account you want to send as:
   • SMTP server: smtp.gmail.com
   • Username: example@gmail.com (the other gmail address you want to send as)
   • Password: (the password to login to the above gmail address)
   • Use SSL
   • Port: 465
6. Press Add Account
7. Verify the address by clicking on the link that was sent to you.
8. Send an email message, and choose to send it as that temporary account from step 2.

Even though you chose to send as the address from step 2, it will appear as the email address you chose from step 5. This is more of a temporary workaround, since this seems like a bug in Gmail, which may be fixed sometime in the future.

Answer 6

"On behalf of" problem of custom from address is already solved. You need to use the SMTP Server than Gmail server. Globinch explained this on their site.

Answer 7

I hassle with this for some time now and had the same problem as you:

Gmail appears to detect that the email is another Gmail account and does not ask you whether or not to use another SMTP server.

But I found this blog posting and found the discussion in the comments very useful. If you have a "Google Apps for Business" account, you need to enable the following option:

• go to www.google.com/a/
• Settings -> Email -> General
• In "Outbound relay" check "Allow users to send mail through an external SMTP when configuring a "from" address hosted outside your email domains"

It seems to take a while for that option to get activated in all your accounts. After this, you should be able to configure the external SMTP.