| ▲ | ChrisArchitect a day ago |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | ceejayoz a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| I'd imagine the adoption of DMARC, SPF, DKIM, etc. have just functionally killed the feature. |
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| ▲ | throooooo a day ago | parent [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | zootboy a day ago | parent [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | throooooo a day ago | parent [-] | | Oh, if they're sending via your provider's SMTP then that makes sense. Still, I can't imagine a lot of people use this feature. | | |
| ▲ | avsteele a day ago | parent | next [-] | | I use it. It is useful for anyone who has a personal domain from which they'd like to send/receive without needing to migrate off Google entirely. My registrar gives a few email addresses with SMTP support. Then I use GMail's send-as to remain in gmail but still use my name@mydomain.com mailbox. | |
| ▲ | jayturley a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | We are a small web development company. I'd say that about 20% of our clients used this feature because gmail WAS their email client. They did't want to use a device-based mail client. I am happy we will no longer have to support this. Losing the POP access a couple years ago got about half of them to move, and this will kill it off. |
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| ▲ | treis a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Looks like it's still allowed in app. Probably a way to cut down spam and push people to the app. |
