Send your Gmail through "your" SMTP server

Over the years I have tried many email approaches. In the early days I used Pine (Program for Internet News & Email). Pine was ok.

Later I used Eudora. I liked Eudora. I especially liked that the content was written in plain text files to the application directory. Years later when I no longer used Eudora I could still search the files with a text editor.

At the tail end of my Eudora days, I was getting a lot of peer pressure to use Outlook. I finally gave in. Over two years, I tried to make Outlook work for me. It never did. 

I started using Gmail while I searched for a new email client. I soon found that Gmail reminded me of the early Eudora clients, no bells or whistles, it just worked. As an added benefit I had all the advantages and reach of the web. Eventually I stopped looking for a substitute client and moved to webmail 100%. 

I really like Gmail. 

That being said, I often wished I could send email without the “on behalf of user@domain.com” and simply send as “user@domain.com”. This week I got my wish.

I am in mail nirvana.

Here are the instructions if you are interested http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/send-mail-from-another-address-without.html

Update: the idea is solid and long awaited. However, in my case, my organization uses my main identity password for SMTP. Even though the connection is using SSL, I did not feel comfortable using my password. 

Instead I setup my own SMPT server. This was OK. However, I soon began to deal with the common issues of running your own server. I really want to be using “user@domain.com” but due to time constraints I have gone back to “on behalf of user@domain.com” for now.