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Tip: Gmail migration: How to send emails for a different domain (not telus.net)
Suppose I have a domain, xyz.com with various email addresses e.g. [email protected] that I use as aliases for [email protected]. Prior to being force--migrated to Gmail, I used to send emails through telus....
You should send email for any particular domain from that domain's mail server infrastructure and not from anywhere else.
Finding ways around this are not advisable because your email will be shown as not legitimate. SPF and DKIM will indicate that you are sending from a place that's not authorized for the domain.
Going this route is creating problems, not solving them.
Right, that's exactly what I'm trying to do. If I replace smtp.telus.net with smtp.xyz.com I'm still not able to disable smtp.gmail.com!
The problem it does solve is for when I get sick of my internet provider and don't want to have to tell all my contacts (or harder, any website/company that has my email address for contact) of my new addresses. (Btw, I've had this set up for 20 years, first with Shaw and then with Telus. It's only now that it's switched to Gmail that it's a problem.)
Sorry I misunderstood - I think when you were talking about sending email as another domain, that threw me off.
You need to set them up as separate accounts in the email client. Which email client are you using?
I don't use ISP specific email either...and I have several email accounts set up on multiple devices.
If you say which email client you're using, I may be able to help you.
For my iPhones and iPad it's just the default Apple Mail. On my Android I use BlueMail. I also tried a few others, including Outlook for Android, and haven't found one that will let me change the server. I'm not sure about other PC mail apps but I use Thunderbird and had no problem configuring a different server. All have multiple accounts although now the only provider under all of them is Gmail. The old telus.net setup wasn't a problem so it's obviously specific to Gmail/Google.
