Comments on: Google Apps and Gmail Fix “On behalf Of” Issue

By: Inbox Zero Achieved | Raanan Bar-Cohen

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By: Glenn.eu

Glenn.eu — Wed, 12 May 2010 16:20:12 +0000

I found a way to remove the message: “on behalf of” if you send and email with an alias / nickname from your free Google Apps account:
http://glenn.eu/2010/05/10/google-apps-aliases-nicknames-without-on-behalf-of/

By: john

john — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:06:22 +0000

The signature issue can be tackled using Gmail’s “Canned Responses” feature. I just save a different canned response for each of my accounts (I have 8 addresses configured in my gmail account) and simply insert the appropriate response (or signature) when sending an email.

The benefit of this feature is that I don’t have to rely on a browser plug-in, as it can be disappointing to lose it when upgrading to the next version.

If you need more info, I’d be glad to send you a screenshot.

Cheers,
jp

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:54:36 +0000

I have all email consolidated to my one gmail account and forward all emails from my 4 domains that I owned to gmail.

The on behalf is still very inconvenient. For example, if you host your domain on google app, and you created one account let’s call it admin, you can’t simply add nickname (or alias) to send as the nickname.

I really hope that they would do this, if let’s say Peter@domain.com is an alias of admin@domain.com, it should really send the email as peter@domain.com using the admin@domain.com as login for smtp.gmail.com and never mention admin@domain.com in the header.

The problem right now is the receipient will see admin@domain.com on behalf of Peter@domain.com

To work around the problem, you will have to create an account per email address you want to send as from.

By: Blaine Simpson

Blaine Simpson — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:22:32 +0000

I understand that many setups would want to use their own mail server for outgoing. Unfortunately, I’m Admin for a couple organizations that are using Google Apps to offload services to the Cloud, and that defeats this purpose.

Besides preventing you from offloading mail server work, this makes every message traverse extra hundreds of miles, and makes troubleshooting mail routing problems much more complex. Every damned routing problem that comes up, I have to multiply my work to see whethere the problem is to or from Google or my own mail servers.

By: Raanan Bar-Cohen

Raanan Bar-Cohen — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:16:45 +0000

@camille — thanks, that one does seem to work.

By: Camille

Camille — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:09:29 +0000

A good signature plugin for Gmail / Google Apps Mail :
http://www.wisestamp.com/

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:30:10 +0000

I nearly leapt for joy when I first read about this on the gmail blog, but have had a difficult time implementing it for one of our company’s external domain email users because our domain host isn’t approving the connection. grrr

PS great idea for using Canned Response for sigs. Ta!

By: Thorsten

Thorsten — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 10:12:08 +0000

I found using Canned Responses, Sender Time Zone and Forgotten Attachment Detector the most useful addons to use from the labs. Canned Responses for signatures as described by Beau. Sender Time Zone shows a small icon for daytime (phone) or night (email) based on the senders time zone and the Forgotten attachment detector lets you know when you mentioned attachment or similar in your mail but missed that attachment. I’m using contact and calendar sync with my iPhone. So far I did not have any issues, but never used the apple address book or iCal.