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If I set up a mail forward so that [email protected] is directed to [email protected], and then monitor [email protected] in Outlook using IMAP, will Outlook (or can it be made to) reply to emails send to [email protected] as that email?

In other words can I maintain the illusion without the person I reply to randomly seeing references to my gmail account?

EDIT: I was doing some testing... When I sent from [email protected] AS [email protected], Outlook displays the incoming email as "[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]". I guess this means gmail's forwarding is not especially useful, is there a workaround? All my POP-based mail is rubbish compared to gmail...

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    I would be interested in this answer too. As far as I can tell, you can manually choose a different “from” address for outgoing mail, but Outlook won’t automatically choose the correct “from” address.
    – Nate
    Jan 6, 2010 at 19:40
  • Note: the correct answer has been added to the bottom.
    – Atomix
    Oct 20, 2010 at 20:20

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I came across this same conundrum. The problem on my end was I am using it for business as well and did not think the Gmail looked professional.

The way I had to set it up was to add the email as a POP account in Gmail - Settings->Accounts and Import. Even though I do not use POP to download the message, this gives you the option "Send through SMTP servers (recommended for professional domains)"

This will then use your SMTP servers and will hide any referring information from Gmail. Any mail sent via the Gmail SMTP servers needs to have the "on behalf of" information for spam tracking purposes.

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When you reply in outlook you can go to options and add the From field so you can spoof whatever email you want. In fact if you set that in the account properties so it always says you are someone else.

Anyway that is not a server related question...

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  • Which site should it be on, I was not sure? Someone can move to superuser perhaps?
    – John
    Jan 6, 2010 at 19:41
  • Yes you can spoof, but can you automate it? You know you'd forget eventually.
    – John
    Jan 6, 2010 at 19:42
  • I do not believe you can automate it. I juggle 6 personal and professional accounts through Outlook and yes, occasionally I mess it up, but people seem to be very forgiving on those occasions.
    – Catherine MacInnes
    Jan 6, 2010 at 20:38
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The correct way to do this:

Go to tools > account settings > [select the account that you want to change the sending address of and click "change..."]

In the "Change E-mail Account" popup you want to change the first email address field, and that will be the address that your e-mail recipients will see as the "from:" address.

Now if you don't change the SMTP server from Gmail to your original smtp server for the "[email protected]" address your sent emails will say from: [email protected] on behalf of [email protected]. So change your smtp server to the correct one.

Note: You may need to go into "More Settings" > advanced > [and change the outgoing port/encryption].

Note also: If your new smtp server requires authentication, then again in the "More Settings" popup choose the "Outgoing Server" tab and select "My outgoing (SMTP) sever requires authentication" checkbox then select "log on using" option and enter the username and password for the "[email protected]" account.

Your emails should now appear to be sent from "[email protected]" even if "[email protected]" is selected in the reply window.

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I had this same issue. I added my company account in gmail from settings>accounts> add pop email; send mail as.

Then in Outlook, under accounts setting, i selected my gmail address and edited the "User Information" email to "[email protected]". rest every thing, pop, smpt remains the same.

It worked.

Now my email at "[email protected]" bounces to "[email protected]"--> outlook download all my emails in gmail and when i send emails from outlook, it is send as "[email protected]"

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