{"id":11716,"date":"2009-07-31T13:50:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T11:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=11716"},"modified":"2009-07-31T13:50:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T11:50:40","slug":"gmail-solves-the-on-behalf-of-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/31\/gmail-solves-the-on-behalf-of-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Gmail solves the “on behalf of” issue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is the day I’ve been waiting for for a few years now – Gmail solves the “on behalf of” issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you are not familiar with it, the essence of it is this.\u00a0 You can use Gmail to manage your other, non-Gmail mail accounts.\u00a0 You can either forward mail automatically to your Gmail inbox, or even set a POP3 fetching from a remote server.\u00a0 In Gmail account settings you can add all the email addresses that you use, and then even reply from those email addresses.<\/p>\n

However, due to Gmail not managing your other email accounts directly, it is forced to add a Sender header with a Gmail email address in it.\u00a0 And some email programs, like MS Outlook either get confused by it or interpret it in a certain way.\u00a0 So, if you use your me@gmail.com email address to manage your me@work.com email, and you reply to a message using a me@work.com in From, your colleague’s MS Outlook will show the email to be from “me@gmail.com on behalf of me@work.com”.\u00a0 This is ugly and there was no easy work around this.<\/p>\n

Today Google added support for external SMTP servers.\u00a0 This way, you can configure your Gmail to use mail.work.com SMTP server when you send from me@work.com .\u00a0 And it comes from me@work.com , not me@gmail.com on behalf of me@work.com .<\/p>\n

With this feature, Gmail practically becomes a full featured email client with support for POP3 for incoming mail and SMTP for outgoing mail.\u00a0 And these are great news!<\/p>\n

The “on behalf of” issue was keeping quite a few folks from moving all their email accounts to Gmail.\u00a0 And not that the problem is solved I think more people will move over.\u00a0 Good times!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

This is the day I’ve been waiting for for a few years now – Gmail solves the “on behalf of” issue. If you are not familiar with it, the essence of it is this.\u00a0 You can use Gmail to manage your other, non-Gmail mail accounts.\u00a0 You can either forward mail automatically to your Gmail inbox, … Continue reading Gmail solves the “on behalf of” issue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334],"tags":[1985],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-google-gmail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t