Why are Outgoing Emails from All Accounts Addressed with the Outgoing SMTP's Server's Email Address?
I have 11 email addresses set up in Thunderbird. I have my default outgoing server set to smtp.googlemail.com, and have had it that way for years. So all inbound emails come in through their proper channels and all outgoing emails are sent through the google server. I have always sent and received emails at all 11 email addresses for years without issue. Of those 11 addresses 2 are gmail and 9 are on my own server.
However, recently I am finding that when I send an email that is not from my main gmail address, it is ending up in people's inbox addressed from the gmail account associated with the outgoing server rather than the email account from which I sent it in Thunderbird. So messages sent from tony@xyz.com are showing as sent from email@gmail.com instead.
This has never been the case before, and I am wondering if there is a setting I can change in order to fix this issue. The rest of the email addresses set up in Thunderbird are associated with my server and the reason I've had the google server set as the outgoing server the entire time is that my server doesn't have an ssl certificate and so my normal emails were being flagged as spam in the past and ending up in client's junk boxes.
I did try setting my own server as the outgoing server and all the emails worked properly set to that one outgoing server. But I do not want things set up that way.
Not sure why Thunderbird (or maybe Google?) has started operating this way as of late, and would appreciate any help on fixing the issue. Thanks a lot.
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Thanks, I did find it there in settings.
So for anyone else looking at this there are 2 solutions that work.
1) Just change the outgoing servers in your thunderbird settings, so that google's smtp server is no longer the default for other accounts. This entails going through each email and entering the server info, unless (like in my case) all the other emails are on my very own server.
2) Go into Gmail settings under "Accounts and Import" and fill in your server info in "Send Mail As" for each email. This solution takes the same amount of effort and then Google essentially uses your server login to send mail through your server. Incredible how cheap they're being with bandwidth.
So I opted for solution #1. Google just keeps making advertising money and sucking worse at providing nice, easy, useful services. Pretty bad. One day, there will be a competitor and Google will pay the price for being so shitty on so many different fronts.
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have you registered all of those email addresses as outgoing mail addresses you own with Google. They have required you to for some years, but tend to just issue a complaint email periodically, perhaps they have tightened the security around that. Either way this is a matter for you to discuss with Google. Thunderbird gets no say in what happens once the smtp server takes over. For example Outlook raplace the display name and email address with the ones on their web site for the primary account when you send mail through their server. Ignoring even their own identities.
Thanks Matt. No, I never have. It's all just worked properly up until now and I've been allowed to use Google's outgoing SMTP server without this consequence the entire time.
Strange that this has just happened to me in the past month after years of easy going use. They probably did tighten the belt.
Would you happen to know offhand where I could register the other email addresses with Google? I assume it would be somewhere in Gmail settings and will have a look. I will try to contact them, but sometime that's difficult.
Found this article on Lifehacker that's been updated to say exactly what you said: http://lifehacker.com/111166/how-to-use-gmail-as-your-smtp-server
This link I hope will take you to the right page. I never know with in account links at google. https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#settings/accounts
It is on the page as "send mail as"
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Thanks, I did find it there in settings.
So for anyone else looking at this there are 2 solutions that work.
1) Just change the outgoing servers in your thunderbird settings, so that google's smtp server is no longer the default for other accounts. This entails going through each email and entering the server info, unless (like in my case) all the other emails are on my very own server.
2) Go into Gmail settings under "Accounts and Import" and fill in your server info in "Send Mail As" for each email. This solution takes the same amount of effort and then Google essentially uses your server login to send mail through your server. Incredible how cheap they're being with bandwidth.
So I opted for solution #1. Google just keeps making advertising money and sucking worse at providing nice, easy, useful services. Pretty bad. One day, there will be a competitor and Google will pay the price for being so shitty on so many different fronts.