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Using Gmail for another accounts w/o having "on behalf of" appear?

Andrew [PersonRank 0]

Tuesday, November 15, 2005
18 years ago

Is there any way to use Gmail for mail from another (work) account and not have it say "sent on behalf of name[put at-character here]gmail.com"?

I would like to use Gmail for a work account and would like to be able to have all my e-mails sending to one account, while at the same time, not have the workd world see my personal address.

Second option is, if I could transfer my archived items to a second gmail account, I could have personal gmail and work non-gmail, both sent to this new account. Is this possible? PLEASE HELP!

Justin Pfister [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

I agree. The 'On Behalf' is annoying and i don't know how to remove it.

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

Google don't specifically add that. It's actually the email client that adds it, although it's Google's fault (of course). Basically, they add a "Sender" field as well as the usual "From" field and some email clients display this in the way you described whilst others ignore it.

More discussion about this here:
http://blogoscoped.com/forum/9781.html

Justin Pfister [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

Well.. I guess they are sticking to standards. right??

Andrew [PersonRank 0]

18 years ago #

But does ANYONE have a solution???

I want to conceal my home e-mail, but use gmail for my work e-mail, too?

HOW?

George R [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

If your concern is not divulging your real address,
I think that Spamgourmet has the capability to rewrite these fields. The source is available at SourceForge.

Spamgourmet:
http://www.spamgourmet.com

SourceForge project:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/spamgourmet

Dan Brehmer [PersonRank 0]

18 years ago #

I had this working just fine from my Yahoo mail account. I switched to Gmail in August and had assumed it worked the same way. The solution may be to go back to Yahoo. They do offer a pretty good email service also.

John Bayer [PersonRank 0]

18 years ago #

Yahoo email service is horrible. I used them for a decade, then they deleted my account without warning and without reason. Stay away from Yahoo!. I spent 20 hours on technical / customer support with them, being transferred and all they could say is "we can not help you, we can not tell you why the account was disabled, etc"

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