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Gmail to end support for "Send as" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com

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Re: Gmail to end support for "Send as" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com

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It's weird that they are actively discouraging us from using external mail inside gmail. Like, you would think they want us sucking down all our scannable data into their system and staying inside the wall.

I'd imagine the adoption of DMARC, SPF, DKIM, etc. have just functionally killed the feature.

Re: Gmail to end support for "Send as" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com

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This was the last straw for me. I'm migrating to Apple Mail and cancelling workspace ASAP.

ETA: I said nothing about where I'm planning to host my SMTP server. Apple Mail is a provider-agnostic client-side application, like Thunderbird.

ETA2: Those who read TFA carefully will know that, even though this doesn't affect Workspace aliases, it does affect this feature (Send-As SMTP) for workspace accounts.

Re: Gmail to end support for "Send as" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com

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This was the last straw for me. I'm migrating to Apple Mail and cancelling workspace ASAP. ETA: I said nothing about where I'm planning to host my SMTP server. Apple Mail is a provider-agnostic client-side application, like Thunderbird. ETA2: Those who read TFA carefully will know that, even though this doesn't affect Workspace aliases, it does affect this feature (Send-As SMTP) for workspace accounts.

With workspace you can add your own custom domains anyway... This seems unrelated.

Re: Gmail to end support for "Send as" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com

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post #3

It's weird that they are actively discouraging us from using external mail inside gmail. Like, you would think they want us sucking down all our scannable data into their system and staying inside the wall.

I'd imagine the adoption of DMARC, SPF, DKIM, etc. have just functionally killed the feature.

Yes, that was my first thought. It's wild to me that GMail would support sending as yahoo.com, outlook.com, etc. in the first place. Google makes lots of questionable decisions and shuts down lots of products uncessarily, but this is not a strange or unwarranted move.

Re: Gmail to end support for "Send as" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com

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This was the last straw for me. I'm migrating to Apple Mail and cancelling workspace ASAP. ETA: I said nothing about where I'm planning to host my SMTP server. Apple Mail is a provider-agnostic client-side application, like Thunderbird. ETA2: Those who read TFA carefully will know that, even though this doesn't affect Workspace aliases, it does affect this feature (Send-As SMTP) for workspace accounts.

> This change does not affect Google Workspace aliases or other Gmail addresses you own.
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