Exclusive: New Gmail Feature
Anonymous source tips me off to a feature just added to Gmail: Send mail as. Now you can give your outgoing as any other email address you own. Here’s the evidence, in case your account doesn’t have it yet:
As you can see, just click Settings, then the Accounts tab, and you’ve got it. Make sure you read the FAQ first. You can’t add any email address, like other services and Outlook allow. You actually have to have access to the email address.
Click ‘Next Step >>,’ and then click ‘Send Verification’ to complete the process. Gmail will send a verification message to your other email address to confirm that you’d like to add it to your Gmail account. You’ll need to click the link in that message, or enter the confirmation code in the ‘Accounts’ section of your Gmail account, to complete the process. Once you’ve verified that you’d like to add the address to your account, you can start sending messages using your custom ‘From:’ address.
This is what we call a very smart idea, and a great means of thwarting spammers. Someone please tell Hotmail to rip this off, now.
You can add multiple email addys, and just choose the one you want from a drop down when you send a message. If I’m not mistaken, this now means you can dump all of your other email programs and now use Gmail for everything. This should make Gmail lovers real happy-like.
UPDATE: Even better: My test email just had this as the address field:
********@gmail.com; on behalf of; Nathan Weinberg [********@hotmail.com]
Google is really determined to not let anyone use this for nefarious purposes. Considering how screwed up email has become, it certainly seems like Google has some good ideas for fixing the system.
Gmail feature : send mail as
Exclusive: New Gmail FeatureInsideGoogle - part of the Blog News Channel 登入到自己的gmail，選設定，accounts，會看到有個send mail as。 在新增了其他的mail address且通過認證之後，在寄信時的from就可以選擇不同…
Trackback by 異想天開 | August 23, 2005
I have this feature as of right now. It’s odd because the people that I’ve invited don’t have this feature.
Does anyone else have newstickers/RSS feeds above the Archive/Spam buttons? I’ve had this for about 6 months now but I haven’t found anyone else who has them. Please let me know.
Scott
Comment by Scott | August 23, 2005
You wrote:
UPDATE: Even better: My test email just had this as the address field:
********@gmail.com; on behalf of; Nathan Weinberg [********@hotmail.com]
No, that’s just MS Outhouse mangling the headers, I think.
When I tested it, it sent the following headers:
From: Michael Schaap
Sender: **********@gmail.com
both of which are shown by Thunderbird.
- Michael
Comment by mscha | August 23, 2005
[Revised version of previous comment, since it appears all mangled. Hopefully, this one will work.]
You wrote:
> UPDATE: Even better: My test email just had this as the address field:
> ********@gmail.com; on behalf of; Nathan Weinberg [********@hotmail.com]
No, that’s just MS Outhouse mangling the headers, I think.
When I tested it, it sent the following headers:
> From: Michael Schaap <mscha@*****.nl>
> Sender: **********@gmail.com
both of which are shown by Thunderbird.
- Michael
Comment by mscha | August 23, 2005
Is it possible to get messages from my college account in GMail? (Like, I can do with Yahoo!?)
Comment by Anon Coward | August 23, 2005
Unir varias cuentas de Gmail en una
Gmail ha introducido una nueva funcionalidad que hace de su correo un servicio mejor. Se trata de la personlaización del campo From (De), campo en el que indicamos al receptor del email quién se lo ha enviado. Esto tiene la gran ventaja de que, si bi…
Trackback by genbeta | August 23, 2005
The Dutch version of Gmail doesn’t have this feature yet, I had to turn my account-language into English (US) to use the feature.
Googles policy of showing the ‘real’ sender in the email limits the usefullness for me, however - I cannot use the feature when I don’t want people (or mailinglists, or institutions) to know my real name and my private address. A workaround would be to use my public address (which is a gmail-address as well) as main address, with the private address as optional ‘from’-address.
- Paul
Comment by Paul Gill | August 23, 2005
Maybe I’m slow, but why would you use this?
To hide your gmail account from people?
I just don’t see the value added, but since pretty much every email client allows this I guess it must have some functional value that my idiotness prevents me from seeing.
Comment by Brock | August 23, 2005
Scott: For some reason, Google hasn’t been rolling out Web Clips to anyone. It makes sense in a typical closed beta that some people would be testing different features, but this being a “Google beta”, I’m surprised everyone (including myself) doesn’t have it.
Thanks, Mscha, for clearing that up.
Anon, you could always forward your college email to Gmail. The difference is that now you can also send email from Gmail as your college email address.
Yeah, I think Google has designed Gmail from the get-go to be mailing lists unfriendly. Personally, I don’t have a problem with that. Not that you shouldn’t be able to send mailing lists, but that it should require a bit more effort, to discourage the few imbeciles ruining the email system.
Brock: This is perfect for people who have a work email they are required to use, but want to use Gmail. Now you can eliminate every other email client you have and just enjoy the benefits of Gmail’s interface.
Comment by Nathan Weinberg | August 23, 2005
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How would this let you get rid of your other emails? Wouldn’t you still need them for receiving? What we need is GMail as our client for other POP accounts.
Comment by Scott Kingery | August 23, 2005
Scott,
The answer to your question is “Auto-Forwarding”.
Comment by Brock | August 23, 2005
Brock,
I don’t think that would help. Example:
My ISP gives me POP mail only. I wish I could get to it from the web. GMail is a cool and would be nice if it could be my web interface but GMail does not go get my mail from my ISP.
With this feature I can send as-if I was sending from my ISP..cool. But that still leaves me with no way to get mail from my ISP.
Comment by Scott Kingery | August 23, 2005
Think he’s saying get it setup on your ISP to auto-forward to your GMail account. Instead of being delivered at your ISP.
Still requires having something setup with your ISP however, so you’re not really getting rid of an account, just changing how it works.
Comment by matt | August 23, 2005
And honestly … I would have assumed this feature had always been in GMail had Nathan not figured out it wasn’t … since like every other email client on earth comes with it stock …
Comment by matt | August 23, 2005
you need to have it in english (us) to use this feature, everyone i know has it though. i just wish it worked with english (uk) since thats what i use. sigh.
Comment by Jake | August 24, 2005
[…] I may be wrong about #2 above, though. Is that what this feature will lead to? Maybe by authorizing an email address, it adds it to Google’s massive list of acceptable addresses? […]
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Eager to try out Google Talk
I am a regular reader of many technical blogs, sites and forums. However the launch of Google Talk came as a big surprise to me. Sure there was some buzz about it in many of the forums but I seem to have missed most of it (maybe I should review the list
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Jake,
If you change to US English, set it up and then change back to UK English it keeps the From address setting!
Comment by Bones | August 24, 2005
I want to echo the concerns of Paul Gill, in that this new feature has only limited usefulness if the core Gmail address is revealed in the header. I would want to use this to PREVENT people from knowing my real Gmail address. For example, I’d like to send from another address (or a “plus address - username+whatever@gmail) to e-mail companies, websites where I have an account, etc. Then, if they sell my e-mail to a spammer I can quickly delete it or stop using it. With this “sent on behalf of” setup, they know my core Gmail address, and once it’s sold you can kiss it goodbye. I would think the verification process should allow you to send from whatever email you verify, hiding your Gmail address.
Comment by Chris | August 24, 2005
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Google Talk
The much-anticipated IM client is now live - Google Talk enables you to call or send instant messages to your friends for free - anytime, anywhere in the world.
Link: Google Talk
Here’s some info and screenshots.
via
Also, here’s a new gmail feature…
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mscha said:
>No, that’s just MS Outhouse mangling the >headers, I think.
>When I tested it, it sent the following >headers:
>> From: Michael Schaap
>> Sender: **********@gmail.com
>both of which are shown by Thunderbird.
No, Outlook is just presenting the information from both headers. RFC 2822 requires that the sender field exist if a message is being sent from a source other than the source stated on the From line but the RFC doesn’t give any interface requirements (i.e. both Thunderbird and Outlook are justified in their representation). Both headers need to be included because masquerading as a different sender is going to break down when Domain Keys and Sender ID start validating people are who they say they are. So, since it sends out both your e-mail addresses (your Google and your other address) you’re not actually thwarting spammers, you’re giving them a two-for-one deal on your return addresses.
Comment by Reeves | August 24, 2005
Wow looks like everyone’s finding this at the same time…i posted on this on my site after seeing it on the new features section of GMail (http://www.tipmonkies.com/2005/08/25/send-e-mail-from-any-address-through-gmail).
Comment by Martin | August 25, 2005
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Thx Nathan, didnt know google had this feature. Time to say goodbye to yahoo i guess.
Comment by Sumedh | August 29, 2005
I had this feature and added a few of my other emails to Gmail, but now the option appears to have disappeared and it won’t let me add any other email address — where has this feature gone on my account ?!
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it seems some people who have replied here want to also get email from their other accounts sent to gmail. while gmail doesn’t have this feature (yet. it’s still in beta, and i’m sure that with the release of this “send from” feature, they must be working on something for that too), you can also turn to external forwarding services. i’ve done this with my college account, so now with both the forwarding and gmail’s “send from” i don’t have to visit the college site at all, which i really appreciate because the interface there really sucks. the forwarding service i use (for now) is Return Path (http://www.returnpath.net/forwarding/)
Comment by mew | September 3, 2005
“on behalf of” is assinine and unusable. I can use any of my domain email addresses via squirrelmail and it uses apache to effect the change. No stupid “on behalf of”. I mean really, who would use this? Yahoo lets you send email as you@yourdomain.com without the silly “on behalf of” but you have to PAY for it. Yahoo not worth the money and gmail still relegated to email backup. At first I was so excited I thought I had finally been freed from thunderbird on my office machine and outlook express on my home machine. Much ado about nuthin.
Comment by opossum | September 13, 2005
Please send me a Gmail invite.
halcyonteam[@]yahoo.com
Thanks in advance if you could help!
Good day!
Comment by hong | September 19, 2005
Let Google know you don’t like the “on behalf of” on https://services.google.com/inquiry/gmail_suggest/
Comment by Gina | September 20, 2005
I added a new from address using the US language version of Gmail and then switched to the UK version. Now the “on behalf of” message is gone! Hooray
Comment by grinaldo | October 12, 2005
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Email: okons_chambers@mailfreei.com
Good Day,
This letter is not intended to cause any embarrassment in whatever form,rather it is intended to contact your esteemed
self,following the knowledge of your high repute
and trust worthiness.Firstly,I must solicit your confidentiality. I know that a proposal of this magnitude will make anyone
EDIT
Yeah, Nathan here. There was a Nigerian 409 scam letter there. I’ve deleted all the boring info, but I’m hoping the email address gets picked up by some spam bots. That’d be nice.
Comment by Okons | October 18, 2005
Whahaahahaha. WTF… you guys go through comments nowadays
I accidentally moderated tgis crap, sorry !
Comment by Coolz0r | October 19, 2005
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Comment by joel | January 30, 2006
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Comment by joel | January 30, 2006
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I think this feature has been removed. I can’t seem to find it in my account.
Comment by anon | May 12, 2007