Gmail will end send-as support from third-party email addresses

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Post by ritzaco » Tue, Aug 04, 2026, 1:49 PM UTC

Gmail will end send-as support from third-party email addresses
support.google.com

Re: Gmail will end send-as support from third-party email addresses

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Post by palata » Tue, Aug 04, 2026, 2:01 PM UTC

I guess it makes sense: it was helping them convert people to Gmail back then ("you can keep your current emails and handle them from Gmail"), but Gmail has been a quasi-monopoly for long enough, they don't need that anymore.

Anyway the thing that keeps coming back with email is that if you don't own your own domain, you're doing it wrong. Took me way too long to realise, but transitioning wasn't actually that bad.

Re: Gmail will end send-as support from third-party email addresses

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Post by mjpa86 » Tue, Aug 04, 2026, 2:20 PM UTC

Is there a decent alternative to gmail that works seemlessly on android?

Proton's performance is terrible, as is Outlook, not to mention it's search that just doesn't work.

Unless I've misread it, this will stop people using their own domain on gmail and using an external mail server to send from gmail using their own domain right?

Re: Gmail will end send-as support from third-party email addresses

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Post by johng » Tue, Aug 04, 2026, 2:35 PM UTC

mjpa86 wrote: post #3

Is there a decent alternative to gmail that works seemlessly on android? Proton's performance is terrible, as is Outlook, not to mention it's search that just doesn't work. Unless I've misread it, this will stop people using their own domain on gmail and using an external mail server to send from gmail using their own domain right?

I've been a customer of fastmail for years now and I love it. Still have to use Google for my work domain but use fastmail for all my personal domains.

Re: Gmail will end send-as support from third-party email addresses

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Post by mjpa86 » Tue, Aug 04, 2026, 4:03 PM UTC

johng wrote: post #4

mjpa86 wrote: post #3

Is there a decent alternative to gmail that works seemlessly on android? Proton's performance is terrible, as is Outlook, not to mention it's search that just doesn't work. Unless I've misread it, this will stop people using their own domain on gmail and using an external mail server to send from gmail using their own domain right?

I've been a customer of fastmail for years now and I love it. Still have to use Google for my work domain but use fastmail for all my personal domains.

do you know if that integrates nicely into calendar widgets? when i tried outlook, you could add to the phone's calendar to they showed up in the widgets, but clicking on the events didn't work at all