Configure Gmail to Use Google Apps SMTP Server

Alright, you have multiple Gmail accounts and using Google Apps for your domain, then sending email your perosnal gmail account using Domain SMTP server just got easier. To send email from your Gmail account using Google Apps SMTP server, Google will provide 2 options

1. Send using Gmail Server
2. Send using your domain’s SMTP server.

Configure Domain SMTP Server

In order to send email using Google Apps SMTP server, first check the following settings

1. Login into Google Apps and verify following option is Checked ( under Email Settings)
   1. Allow users to send mail through an external SMTP when configuring a “from” address hosted outside your domain.
2. Under Domain Settings > General > Enable SSL
3. It can take upto 24 hours for changes to be updated.
   

Configure in Gmail

• Login into your Gmail account > Settings > Accounts and Imports > Send Email from another address
• Enter Name and Email Address
• Send Verification.
• After address is verified, configure the SMTP servers.
• Select “Send through your-domain.com SMTP servers (recommended for professional domains”
• SMTP Server : smtp.gmail.com
• Port: 465
• Check Use SSL
• Enter User Name and Password
• Click Save Changes

Thats it, you will be able to send email form your personal account through your domain’s SMTP server. So, “on Behalf of” tag will be removed from any email that is send form your personal id”.

If you select Send through Gmail (easier to set up) then On Behalf Of  tag will be added to all outgoing emails from your personal account.

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