Filed under: E-mail, Google, Troubleshooting
How to turn off "on behalf of" in Gmail
To fix the issue, you just have to set up your alternate account to use its own mailserver instead of Google's. Go to "accounts" in your Gmail settings, and under "Send Mail As," you should see your alternate addresses. Click "edit info" and "next step," and you should find the option to send using your own SMTP server.
You'll just need to enter the username and password, and you're good to go. Goodbye, "on behalf of!"
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loddvs said 11:41AM on 7-31-2009
what if I have multiple gmail accounts consolidated? Is there a way to stop it from saying
"from xxx@gmail.com on behalf of yyy@gmail.com"
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halophoenix said 2:46PM on 7-31-2009
That's exactly what this does.
aanidaani said 1:03PM on 7-31-2009
This is useful, but whenever I send an email Gmail doesn't save a copy in my "Sent Messages" folder now...
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chuckb said 2:16PM on 7-31-2009
I just did this from a gmail account consolidated to another gmail account and it still shows 'on behalf of'
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unmutual1 said 2:34PM on 7-31-2009
Similar to the 1st comment, how do you get it to work with a Google Apps e-mail address? I can't get it to work.
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Trinae A Ross said 8:38PM on 8-05-2009
I use my company through Google's mail servers and have yet to see the "Sent on behalf of" message. When you set up your mail. Do you use your user name as name@companyname.domain? Here is what I do in Outlook 2007:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77689
It is important that you select the whole configure manually setting. Hope it helps.
Bryan Price said 5:48PM on 7-31-2009
I think the whole "on behalf of..." needs to go. Period.
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schmitt.happens said 1:00PM on 8-05-2009
are you being deliberately obtuse? That is what this does!
Bryan Price said 3:12PM on 8-05-2009
But you have to send it through a different SMTP server. I would just rather have it gone. Period. No set up, no sending emails through another server, not one more thing to have f---ed up.
And notice that it still does it for other Gmail accounts (since the SMTP server hasn't actually changed).
allan@king.co.uk said 2:56PM on 9-08-2009
As aanidaani says, if the SMTP server is changed, sent e-mails no longer go through Google's SMTP server and do not appear in Google Sent Mail. Which means they are not available in all the devices - phone, laptop etc. - that I use. sadly, this makes the workaround useless for me.
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allan@king.co.uk said 3:03PM on 9-08-2009
Ah! How can I get a username and stop this board showing my e-mail address, please??
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