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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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Post by tekla »

lrvick wrote: post #14
ericpauley wrote: post #5

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.

So you got burned by a centralized proprietary mail service suddenly making user-hostile changes, and your first instinct is to move to another centralized proprietary mail service by a company with a long history of user hostile changes? Truly modern consumer sensibilities are fascinating to me. Personally I do not use any Apple or Google products. There are so many better choices! Anyway, might I suggest services t…

Poster didn't get burned.

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

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Post by LetMeLogin »

dietr1ch wrote: post #16
occz wrote: post #6

I have a domain and a contact email address for that domain that I have exclusively used through GMail, I guess this means I need to figure out a different path forward for that, then?

Good thing they are reminding you to get out of Gmail for real

It's not an easy task! I had mine account since gmail beta, so much stuff is going through it.

Two years ago I moved to Fastmail(they're great), and pretty much setting up an alias per site/purpose. While I'm happy to see that gmail receives less & less, I still have about 150 entries in 1password that say @gmail.com... maybe one day...

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

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Post by zootboy »

throooooo wrote: post #8
ceejayoz wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's not wild at all. It's just behaving like any other MUA but with an extra step. You have to give GMail your SMTP submission credentials for the sending server of the target domain, then prove ownership of the specific address you want to send as. SPF/DKIM/DMARC works fine, as GMail is just submitting your message on your behalf the way any MUA would.

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

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Post by fhdkweig »

occz wrote: post #6

I have a domain and a contact email address for that domain that I have exclusively used through GMail, I guess this means I need to figure out a different path forward for that, then?

Since you planned ahead, it should be as simple as getting a new provider and updating the MX record. If you are looking for suggestions, I'm on Fastmail's $50/year plan and quite happy with it.

https://www.fastmail.com/how-to/email-for-your-domain/

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

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Post by tclancy »

YesThatTom2 wrote: post #20

> This change does not affect Google Workspace aliases or other Gmail addresses you own. I bet most people complaining about this change don’t even know this feature exists. Right now you can forge email from any email address you can verify ownership. Most of those emails will end up in a spam folder. This doesn’t affect email addresses that Google controls DMARC records for.

> Right now you can forge email from any email address you can verify ownership

I find this sentence confusing. Do you mean “forge” in a technical sense of “this email came from a server unassociated with the domain”? I don’t really get it. I’ve know this feature existed in Gmail for 15+ years and have made regular use of it. Plus I’ve used it to help older relatives keep an old address alive.

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

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Post by Evidlo »

LetMeLogin wrote: post #23
dietr1ch wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good thing they are reminding you to get out of Gmail for real

It's not an easy task! I had mine account since gmail beta, so much stuff is going through it. Two years ago I moved to Fastmail(they're great), and pretty much setting up an alias per site/purpose. While I'm happy to see that gmail receives less & less, I still have about 150 entries in 1password that say @gmail.com... maybe one day...

Just do email forwarding and progressively update your accounts?

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

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Post by anotherhue »

wnevets wrote: post #19

> we occasionally have the difficult choice to discontinue features that require disproportionate maintenance resources. Am I really expected to believe that the billions of dollars the company makes in pure profit can't sustain this feature? Am I really expected to believe the touted productively gains granted by Google's AI can't sustain this feature?

Anyone still using Google for anything other than ads and YouTube post Reader has only themselves to blame.

Maybe GCP. It's like saying the tiger had no prior history of violence.

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

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Post by tclancy »

lrvick wrote: post #14
ericpauley wrote: post #5

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.

So you got burned by a centralized proprietary mail service suddenly making user-hostile changes, and your first instinct is to move to another centralized proprietary mail service by a company with a long history of user hostile changes? Truly modern consumer sensibilities are fascinating to me. Personally I do not use any Apple or Google products. There are so many better choices! Anyway, might I suggest services t…

Not everyone is interested in how the sausage gets made. Most people buy a drill to make holes, not to disassemble to learn how to build their own drill. And yes, I have a Migadu account. But I front many of those email addresses via Gmail.

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

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Post by john_strinlai »

YesThatTom2 wrote: post #20

> This change does not affect Google Workspace aliases or other Gmail addresses you own. I bet most people complaining about this change don’t even know this feature exists. Right now you can forge email from any email address you can verify ownership. Most of those emails will end up in a spam folder. This doesn’t affect email addresses that Google controls DMARC records for.

>Right now you can forge email from any email address you can verify ownership.

how can you "forge" something if you verify ownership? when you own something, it's not "forging" to use it.

i think the point you're trying to get at is that the mail might fail dmarc requirements?

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