Gmail supports "from"
Via Brad Feld, I found out that Gmail supports "from" addresses.
I switched over to using Gmail as the backend storage for my main emails several months ago. The big downside is that if you send through Google's SMTP server, it only lets you set the "from" as your Gmail account, regardless of your Reply-To setting. So, other people see that you're using a Gmail account.
The funny thing is, an @Yahoo or @Hotmail account from a supposed business person looks really unprofessional. That is, from people that have their own domain, but never got email set up there.
It kind of bothered me that I was exposing my use of Gmail, but Gmail itself has a certain caché to it -- it's a power user tool (well, until today -- anyone can sign up now).
Well, today Gmail is back to being a behind the scenes power. Making it that much more useful to me, much like Feedburner's feed hosting service that uses your own domain.
Side note: my current categories are for the most part starting to break down. I have a "search engine" category, which Google at one time was, but Gmail doesn't make as much sense in that context. This whole "tag" thing might catch on one of these days :P
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tell google you don't like it
Let Google know you don't like the "on behalf of" on
http://services.google.com/inquiry/gmail_suggest/
Doesn't really work too well...
I tried sending an email from my @unb.ca email address to my nortel address and it still came in as being from my gmail address. Funny thing is, I sent the same message to Dave and he said it showed up as from my gmail.com address on behalf of unb.ca address. Bizarre. When I sent the email to Dave's yahoo address...worked like a charm.
From, but only one account per email address
Since I wanted to setup Gmail to use potentially in two or more (sending directly to someone with no "Reply-To" and sending to someone with a "Reply-To" different than my "From" address), but couldn't, because Gmail only lets you have one account per email address. You set the "Reply-To" in your accounts page,
but this, as well as the "From" feature, should be a per-email setting, not a per-email-address setting.
Maybe because I'm reading/trying this two days later...
But it looks to me like I can set up a number of email addresses to send from, and select using a drop down on a per email basis...