Gmail has offered the ability to specify different emails that you own as the “From:” address for a long time. This makes consolidating emails easy. When combined with forwarders, one account could handle the emailing of multiple addresses. However, some recipients see a very ugly “From:” address when using this method.
This is because since Gmail is now sending the email instead of the original mail server, it must include the actual Gmail address in the mail headers.
- Delivered-To: recipient@domain.com
- Return-Path: <real@gmail.com>
- MIME-Version: 1.0
- Sender: real@gmail.com
- Subject: email
- From: Chen Shen<new@cshen.ca>
- To: recipient@domain.com
A while ago Google introduced a new function that solves this by routing emails through the actual server of the alternate address. I’ve only recently set it up with my own account, and found the relevant information scattered around the web. This is a compilation of my search results.