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Your domain on Gmail

Gmail has undoubtedly the best webmail interface by far. Everything is cool about it, except maybe that you found it annoying to have to use the gmail.com domain as your email address instead of the shiny eval(unescape('%64%6f%63%75%6d%65%6e%74%2e%77%72%69%74%65%28%27%3c%61%20%68%72%65%66%3d%22%6d%61%69%6c%74%6f%3a%6d%79%6e%61%6d%65%40%6d%79%64%6f%6d%61%69%6e%2e%63%6f%6d%22%3e%6d%79%6e%61%6d%65%40%6d%79%64%6f%6d%61%69%6e%2e%63%6f%6d%3c%2f%61%3e%27%29%3b')) email address that matches your site.

new gmail address

Good news. You can set up any email address on Gmail in a way that each email sent out will look like as if it was sent from your domain.

First you need to add eval(unescape('%64%6f%63%75%6d%65%6e%74%2e%77%72%69%74%65%28%27%3c%61%20%68%72%65%66%3d%22%6d%61%69%6c%74%6f%3a%6d%79%6e%61%6d%65%40%6d%79%64%6f%6d%61%69%6e%2e%63%6f%6d%22%3e%6d%79%6e%61%6d%65%40%6d%79%64%6f%6d%61%69%6e%2e%63%6f%6d%3c%2f%61%3e%27%29%3b')) to gmail to take care of the outgoing emails:

  1. Go to your gmail account and click Settings and than Accounts tab
  2. Click Add another email address
  3. Fill out the fields including the Reply-to address, which should be the same as the Email address
  4. Click Next Step and Send Verification
  5. Click the verification link in the email that you received to eval(unescape('%64%6f%63%75%6d%65%6e%74%2e%77%72%69%74%65%28%27%3c%61%20%68%72%65%66%3d%22%6d%61%69%6c%74%6f%3a%6d%79%6e%61%6d%65%40%6d%79%64%6f%6d%61%69%6e%2e%63%6f%6d%22%3e%6d%79%6e%61%6d%65%40%6d%79%64%6f%6d%61%69%6e%2e%63%6f%6d%3c%2f%61%3e%27%29%3b'))

Now for the incoming emails. If you not only want to send from your domain using gmail, but you also want to receive all the emails to gmail you will need to forward all your email coming to eval(unescape('%64%6f%63%75%6d%65%6e%74%2e%77%72%69%74%65%28%27%3c%61%20%68%72%65%66%3d%22%6d%61%69%6c%74%6f%3a%6d%79%6e%61%6d%65%40%6d%79%64%6f%6d%61%69%6e%2e%63%6f%6d%22%3e%6d%79%6e%61%6d%65%40%6d%79%64%6f%6d%61%69%6e%2e%63%6f%6d%3c%2f%61%3e%27%29%3b')) to gmail. Most hosting companies where you set-up the email account will give you the option to automatically forward all emails coming to a certain email account. Set it up in a way that everything gets forwarded to your eval(unescape('%64%6f%63%75%6d%65%6e%74%2e%77%72%69%74%65%28%27%3c%61%20%68%72%65%66%3d%22%6d%61%69%6c%74%6f%3a%79%6f%75%72%69%64%40%67%6d%61%69%6c%2e%63%6f%6d%22%3e%79%6f%75%72%69%64%40%67%6d%61%69%6c%2e%63%6f%6d%3c%2f%61%3e%27%29%3b')) email address.

You can optionally go back to your Gmail account settings and make the newly setup account as the default email address to make sure all outgoing emails are sent as if they were sent through your domain. You're actually using Gmail's email servers, but that is only visible in the email headers, but the from and reply-to addresses will all show your domain.

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Fuelrock's picture
78 pencils

I haven't been using my Gmail as much recently since I've been working from home but when I did use it a lot that was an annoyance. This will get rid of that annoyance. Thanks

mrjain's picture
61 pencils

i tried using this and it is great. But on some e-mail clients (such as the BlackBerry) it will still show the sender as "username@gmail.com". However in Outlook it works great. In Yahoo mail, it will show eval(unescape('%64%6f%63%75%6d%65%6e%74%2e%77%72%69%74%65%28%27%3c%61%20%68%72%65%66%3d%22%6d%61%69%6c%74%6f%3a%75%73%65%72%6e%61%6d%65%40%77%68%61%74%65%76%65%72%2e%63%6f%6d%22%3e%75%73%65%72%6e%61%6d%65%40%77%68%61%74%65%76%65%72%2e%63%6f%6d%3c%2f%61%3e%27%29%3b')), but it says authenticated via gmail.com DomainKeys.

So bottomline, some emails readers will show gmail.com and some will show whatever you want.

Skyleth's picture
3 pencils

Gmail fills in: "sent from eval(unescape('%64%6f%63%75%6d%65%6e%74%2e%77%72%69%74%65%28%27%3c%61%20%68%72%65%66%3d%22%6d%61%69%6c%74%6f%3a%75%73%65%72%40%67%6d%61%69%6c%2e%63%6f%6d%22%3e%75%73%65%72%40%67%6d%61%69%6c%2e%63%6f%6d%3c%2f%61%3e%27%29%3b')) on behalf of eval(unescape('%64%6f%63%75%6d%65%6e%74%2e%77%72%69%74%65%28%27%3c%61%20%68%72%65%66%3d%22%6d%61%69%6c%74%6f%3a%75%73%65%72%40%77%68%61%74%65%76%65%72%2e%63%6f%6d%22%3e%75%73%65%72%40%77%68%61%74%65%76%65%72%2e%63%6f%6d%3c%2f%61%3e%27%29%3b'))" and it's up to the mail program to do what it wants with this from field, as mrjain found. Similar to when an email group/alias fowards messages sent to it to it's participants. An all out replacement of the @gmail.com portion would be great... but this is a step in that direction...

mrjain's picture
61 pencils

i wasn't sure if my thoughts were coming through, but you basically sum'd it up.

thanks again.

mrj

neilio's picture
8 pencils

That's strange - I have an "Account Information" tab in my settings, but that just loads the global Google settings window. I don't see this anywhere in my nav bar - I have General, Labels, Filtering, Forwarding and POP, and Account Settings.

Any ideas? Maybe this is a new feature Google is slowly rolling out?

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William's picture
188 pencils

I have the same problem, very annoying it can't be changed.

Will

Ivan's picture

That IS strange. Maybe try with a different browser? But, that shouldn't matter, it's simple html... Hmmm

kay's picture
1 pencil

is gmail really that great? Im not even sure what the positives of it are, really. I have just been hearing that its the 'new thing' everyone is getting hooked up with. on that note.. anyone know how I can get an invite? :)
ps- everyone should check out associatedcontent.com. I recently discovered it online. It hosts a ton of articles on any imaginable topic. Cheers, all.

Fuelrock's picture
78 pencils

It's nice because it has an immense amount of space to store all your emails and attachments. I think it may be up to 2 gigs now, or higher. Along with that it's got a very simple interface and does what's needed without a whole lot of fluff. If you want, I can send you an invite

sfernandes's picture
45 pencils

For all you struggling to find that elusive 'accounts tab' that lets you make the "from domain change", just change you Language back to US English!
Those who can do this have US English selected as a language preference.

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kiran006's picture
15 pencils

Hi,

Indeed a great tip! I havent been using gmail for sometime, but this tip has got me back to using it. Thanks Ivan.

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