changing "From" in gmail

[pgm8705]

I have 3 email accounts all forwarded and managed in my gmail account. Is there any way in the android gmail app, or in the browser, to change which one I am sending from when composing a new message? I tried to go to the desktop version of gmail in the browser, but still this option was absent. It will be a total bummer if I can't send email from my work gmail account.

[short/y]

I set one of my alternate addresses as the default in the desktop Gmail web interface and that seems to cause the Gmail client to use that as the From address. Don't know if it'll work using any other client/interface like the mobile Gmail web interface or not.

[thewannabeenforcer:P]

There is a use as default email address option, but yes we should be able to specify for each email with a drop down or something...

[pgm8705]

i suppose one hack would be to set up an alternate account with the email app and use it for sending. but that sucks

[biblicone]

I too am trying to do this same thing. My work email is forwarded to Gmail and is set up to send from the same email that it was sent to. It works fine in the web based Gmail, but does not work in the G1 Gmail.

Any word on this? Why does the send from field not work the same on the phone?

[Gary.Lavin]

On your desktop go to gmail/settings/accounts and in the 1st section choose "Reply from the same address the message was sent to". Do you have this selected? Works fine for me.

[JUSTINB]

Instead of forwarding, do this:

Go into your Gmail account settings on the webpage, go to Accounts, and set them up so it's actually Gmail checking the mail instead of forwarding. From there, you can set it so that when you reply, it will reply from the address it came from, but it will be in a unified mailbox (labels will seperate it if you use the Gmail client on your G1).

That's what I'm doing right now. I have my G1 Gmail account with the following under it: Comcast, personal webpage, business webpage, and my main Gmail accounts. Everything shows up in one mailbox on my Gmail app, seperated by labels, and from whichever someone e-mails me on, when replying it will automatically reply back from the correct e-mail.

[pgm8705]

Instead of forwarding, do this:

Go into your Gmail account settings on the webpage, go to Accounts, and set them up so it's actually Gmail checking the mail instead of forwarding. From there, you can set it so that when you reply, it will reply from the address it came from, but it will be in a unified mailbox (labels will seperate it if you use the Gmail client on your G1).

That's what I'm doing right now. I have my G1 Gmail account with the following under it: Comcast, personal webpage, business webpage, and my main Gmail accounts. Everything shows up in one mailbox on my Gmail app, seperated by labels, and from whichever someone e-mails me on, when replying it will automatically reply back from the correct e-mail.

not working for me. when you say "set them up so its actually Gmail checking the mail instead of forwarding" you mean using POP correct?

the fetching of the mail works, but it still replies as my default account on android

[Gary.Lavin]

I discovered that on the G1, regardless of what setting you choose on desktop, mail will always be from your gmail address.

[pgm8705]

I discovered that on the G1, regardless of what setting you choose on desktop, mail will always be from your gmail address.

that is terribly dissapointing

[short/y]

I discovered that on the G1, regardless of what setting you choose on desktop, mail will always be from your gmail address.Not true for me. I've set my default asddress to my "main" account and have selected that replies are to come from the address to which the email was addressed, all selectesd from the desktop, and it works just as you'd hope.

[Gary.Lavin]

Not true for me. I've set my default asddress to my "main" account and have selected that replies are to come from the address to which the email was addressed, all selectesd from the desktop, and it works just as you'd hope.

Double check it short/y, I think you will find it always sends from the gmail account.

[short/y]

i have, several times and, at your recent admonition, I checked it again and I can confirm that it showed as coming from my preferred address.

[lance713]

It will come from my default account (different that my google account)... but that is it.

If I have an email sent to my non-default account, and I reply to it from my G1, it will be from my default account and not the account it was sent to.

[Gary.Lavin]

i have, several times and, at your recent admonition, I checked it again and I can confirm that it showed as coming from my preferred address.

The point was not to have it come from a preferred address but the address it was sent to. IE Google collects 3 pop accounts and forwards them to your G1, ideally when you reply to that email it would be from the pop address it was sent to and not from the gmail address.

Are you able to get yours to reply from the pop account or does it always just come from 1 account regardless of the address it was sent to?

Have not checked to see if the recent update did anything here.

[Gary.Lavin]

Just did another test after update, still not working.....

[aviators99]

Just did another test after update, still not working.....

Same here.

[short/y]

The point was not to have it come from a preferred address but the address it was sent to.OK, sorry, I misunderstood. You're right about this. As a workaround, unacceptable to some, I'm using the browser to access my original provider's webmail interface which supports replying from the address to which the email was sent. Not ideal but usable for me.