Recently I have started to receive replies to emails sent out from my holdenweb.com account in the Gmail mailbox I have used for years. At first I though this might be Thunderbird (or me) getting my email accounts and personalities mixed up, but it appears this isn't the case. Here's a test message I sent to myself as an experiment, as it looks in my Sent folder:
So it definitely looks as though it went out from holdenweb.com. And here's the same message as it arrived in my Inbox:
So it goes out from my holdenweb.com address, and arrived at the recipient from my gmail.com address. That's pretty evil, Google - or is there some obvious way I am shooting myself in the foot? It's making my mail conversations pretty hard to track right now.
8 comments:
I hit this same issue with my domain running through gmail. If you go into the gmail config, you can change the settings to use a different reply-to address.
It's not ideal, as the gmail account is still in the from header, but at least most mail clients recognise the reply-to, so mail comes back to the place it was sent from.
Steve,
I think Michael Foorde had the same problem over at the ironpython.info domain - could be wrong. Someone had tweeted about this, so it's not just your domain or your account.
Carl T.
I am not sure how you have it setup. If you are using holdenweb@gmail.com has your mail server then that is the problem, even if you add the email address steve@holdenweb.com to the account, and set it as your default address it always sends it with a not that it was sent via holdenweb@gmail.com. To fix this get a free google apps account google.com/a/
Then it will work like you want.
@Vincent: the holdenweb.com domain is served by Google Apps, which is precisely why I can't understand the behavior.
AFAIK Gmail SMTP server replaces the From (and MAIL FROM:) with the address used during authorization. Mmaybe you are sending the mail using the SMTP configuration for your @gmail.com account?
@eMBe: I was indeed sending mail out through Gmail's SMPT server and authenticating as the other Gmail identity. Nailed it, thanks very much!
Your client is authenticating SMTP w/ your gmail credentials, rather than your Google Apps credentials.
Thanks, Kenneth. I take it you didn't read the other comments? Fixed this a couple of days ago (but you are right about the solution).
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