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Masking Gmail Address When Sending from iPhone

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effectivepull

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Jul 22, 2011
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Apologies if this has been discussed before - a quick search didn't turn up anything that can help me with my issue.

I have a gmail address and a custom domain. I would like to be able to use my gmail account on my iphone and when responding to emails on my iPhone have the "from" address be from my custom domain. Also, if they respond to the email it will go to my custom domain - not my gmail address.

For example, I am checking my gmail account on my iPhone and I'd like to respond to the message. When I send the message, I want the recipient to NOT see my gmail address but my custom domain email address.

I found a youtube video of someone doing it but it appears he is using an iOS prior to 5. I tried to use his method but it didn't work.

I'd appreciate any help you may have to offer.
 
effectivepull said:
Apologies if this has been discussed before - a quick search didn't turn up anything that can help me with my issue.

I have a gmail address and a custom domain. I would like to be able to use my gmail account on my iphone and when responding to emails on my iPhone have the "from" address be from my custom domain. Also, if they respond to the email it will go to my custom domain - not my gmail address.

For example, I am checking my gmail account on my iPhone and I'd like to respond to the message. When I send the message, I want the recipient to NOT see my gmail address but my custom domain email address.

I found a youtube video of someone doing it but it appears he is using an iOS prior to 5. I tried to use his method but it didn't work.

I'd appreciate any help you may have to offer.
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Do you ever want to send as your gmail address ? If no, just configure your email account as generic imap, enter the custom domain account email on the email address field, enter gmail imap server on incoming and your custom domain smtp server on outgoing.

I don't think gmail smtp servers will allow outgoing emails with a non-gmail sender, but if you use your custom domain smtp servers it should work.
 
JediMeister: the blog post that you linked to worked for me. Apple changed things up slightly in iOS 5.1.1 but was still able to figure it out.

I just found that another work around would be to just use the gmail iPhone app. Not as clean as the native iPhone Mail app but still pretty good.
 
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