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google.blognewschannel.com — Great new feature added to GMail. Allows you to send email from any other email address you own.

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  • Andir, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Search doesn't pick up articles that don't make it. Some call it a feature, I call it a bug.
  • jamesburton1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5argh yeh. Never noticed that on the search. Quess I'll just have to look better next time.
  • KevinO, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Google is our friend, no more logging into various other mail clients to send emails.
  • Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I spent a few good minutes trying to find that goddamn feature and only found it after switching the language back to English (US)... Pretty stupid that only American-English speaking users have access to it... UK English is closer to Canadian.
  • whizzbang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm still waiting for them to do the same as Yahoo "Address guard". I currently have about 100 yahoo email addresses (1 for each on-line form I've filled in) all of which I can send from and all of which deliver email to my main account. If one of them starts getting spammed you just drop that email address... simple... I'm sticking with yahoo until google have this!
  • TCDToxic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Are they asking for trouble?
  • Singee15, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Google...GET OUT OF MY HEAD!

    Unreal feature.
    I keep thinking "Wow google can do no wrong" and they continue to prove that correct.

    (With the exception MAYBE of the google accelerator)
  • wyldtek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2whizzbang, Gmail can do this, just add a '+' after your id. for instance: whizzbang+amazon@gmail.com


    "I'm still waiting for them to do the same as Yahoo "Address guard". I currently have about 100 yahoo email addresses (1 for each on-line form I've filled in) all of which I can send from and all of which deliver email to my main account. If one of them starts getting spammed you just drop that email address... simple... I'm sticking with yahoo until google have this!"
  • Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Very cool. I like that it verifies that you own the address too. Neat.
  • Jaxim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Maybe I'm doing something wrong but when I do this sender email change and send an email to myself, the sender field reads the following:

    "yourgmail@gmail.com; on behalf of; Your Name [yourOtherAddress@yahooo.com]"

    so instead of the sender field reading just
    "Your Name [yourOtherAddress@yahooo.com]"

    it also includes your gmail address.

    Nice feature, but "Close, but no cigar!"
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2oh yeah, it does indeed rock... I moved all my POP mail to gmail a few months back. used a python app to import "old" mail into gmail... it is a little creepy, they can read my mail... so I still use POP/PGP for private stuff. but for routine mail, gmail is teh shiz... and now I can send as anyone and forward it all back to GMail for storage and search
  • mojaam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1AHHHH, google won't give up trying to drag me from all my usuals. First, the lycos search engine back in 1999, then it replaced my yahoo desktop search, then skype, and now the big one, yahoo mail.

    Anyway, neat feature.
  • viama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Me neither. I suspect this is being rolled out to all their servers as we speak.
  • Turias, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sorry, it filtered out my header line. It should be:
    Sender: [your real Gmail address]
  • Kerjo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Google is all over the place today.
  • sizemoresr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this rules. I've been forwarding my @domain email to gmail for awhile now.
  • Twelve-60, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I LOVE GOOGLE! :D
  • jamesburton1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeh you may be able to do this with any email client, but how many web based email clients with this feature?

    Verifying the email address is your own is all about protecting people against identity theft and SPAM.
  • silver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Doesn't work for me, my links are:

    General / Labels / Filters / Forwarding and POP / Account Settings ยป

    No "Accounts" link and definately nothing to specify how to set the From address.
  • webbunny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I haven't got that in my settings for some reason.

    I also still havent got the RSS bar thing, why the hell not?
  • rshah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Google will take over the technical world, whats Next? Google PC, Instead of Intel mabey Google Processors? Printers, PDA's who knows.
  • malu, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1Nice!
    Good at work mailing.

    (This feature is not available in "basic HTML" view by now.)
  • mdramige, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Assume that you are working for organization ABC. You have verified GMail to send mail as ABC's email id (say joeuser@abc.com). What would happen if joeuser is kicked out of ABC organization? He can still use GMail to send mails as joeuser@abc.com as he had earlier verified this email id already!!
    Am I missing something?"

    Yes, you can do this with any e-mail client. You don't even have to verify the address with most. Just type one in.
  • sixtyten, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm guessing this is a cosmetic feature and examination of the mail info that's usually hidden in mail clients will show the emails real origins fairly easily?

    but good point atreya
  • sovereign3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's pretty neat. Just tried it and it's definitely there and certainly works. I wonder what these guys at Google have planned for us next?
  • atreya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think there is a potential security breach here.

    Assume that you are working for organization ABC. You have verified GMail to send mail as ABC's email id (say joeuser@abc.com). What would happen if joeuser is kicked out of ABC organization? He can still use GMail to send mails as joeuser@abc.com as he had earlier verified this email id already!!

    Am I missing something?
  • dyefade, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Such a useful feature. Now all my mail goes through gmail; everything was forwarded there anyway, now it can all come out of there.

    I don't wanna sound lame... but man do I love google right now.
  • sixtyten, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1duh - it explains it in the article. there's a verification system in place where you have to reply to an email sent to the address you want gmail to "imperonate" - teach me to read the whole thing eh?
  • Turias, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@anothergene No, it was just added. I do believe you are thinking of the reply-to feature.



    I just tried this out and examined the headers of the e-mail, and Gmail actually sets a header line as follows:
    Sender:

    So, good luck trying to fully spoof your address. In ways, it's nice that this makes it even harder to use it for evil, but sometimes I don't want the receiver to know what my gmail address is. In those cases, I just want to obfuscate my Gmail address and instead make it look like I am using one of the addresses created at my own domain. Sadly, I still can't do that.
  • goldthroat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I tried it and I like it alot.
  • hao2lian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just as a byline, it's Gmail, not GMail (see its usage in http://mail.google.com/mail/help/privacy.html).
  • anti-net, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Strange, i don't seem to have that feature on my gmail account...
  • bugzer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have added and 'verified' an alternative address, but when I compose an email and send it - this is the error message I get:
    "some addresses in the "from" field were not recognized. Please make sure that all addresses are properly formed."
  • Turias, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@jamesburton1 Fastmail.fm is a popular web-based email system that lets you do this with absolutely no verification.
  • TykSak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1this feature has been there for a long time
  • Andir, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5http://digg.com/links/Gmail_supports_multiple_FROM_addresses

    It never made it to the front page because posting an article on software features is lame.
  • isdereks, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5Old
  • tmanka, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1This is NOT NEW! This feature has been around forever.
  • racaruso, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=7134425&blogID=43895989&Mytoken=20050824143319

    My GoogleTalk expose so that hopefully the tech savvy of MySpace get the hell off AIM and onto Google Talk!

    - RACARUSO@GMAIL.COM
  • BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1WOO! Faster spam!
  • ajamison, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Haha ziffel. You are correct.


    This is news to me. Digging as well.
  • ubern00b, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2I didn't know it was there...thanks.
  • ziffel, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2"I don't think this is old..."

    Doesn't matter. Digg Law requires someone shout "old" with every digg.
  • billpoly, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2It's news to me! +1 digg
  • Matrixsjd, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2I must admit, this is a pretty awesome feature, I'm with Kevin, today is a good day :) rock on!!!!
  • sabster, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5omfg enough with all the google news god damn omg so you can send mail as whoop dee ***** dooooooo
  • jakejarvis, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1I don't think this is old...
  • kevinrose, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3Awwwwwwwwwwsome - today is a good day.

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