Gmail Adds Option to Ditch "On Behalf Of"

Picture 4Up until yesterday, one of the really annoying things about Gmail was that if you wanted to use it to send email from an address other than your Gmail address (a company email address, say), it would add your Gmail address into the Sender header in the email. This would result in your email being displayed as being from “myname@gmail.com On Behalf Of myname@company.com” in some email clients, like Microsoft Outlook. That looks quite unprofessional, and made it hard to use Gmail to manage corporate email without forking out for a Google Apps account.

Well, yesterday Google added the option to send your email using your own SMTP server, meaning that it won’t need to add your Gmail address to the Sender header. In other words, no more of that unprofessional-looking “On Behalf Of.”

If you want to set this up in your Gmail account, first you’ll need to make sure that you have the login details for your SMTP server. If this is for a company email account, you might need to ask the IT department. Go into Settings->Account. In the “Send mail as:” section, you’ll see a list of your accounts. Click “edit info.”

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Click “Next step” in the popup, and then select to send the email through your own SMTP server. Fields will appear where you enter your login credentials.SMTP login

Enter your username and password. Click “Save changes” and your email recipients won’t see “On Behalf Of” ever again.

Do you use Gmail for corporate email?

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