Gmail made this change around August of 2014. My personal email account is so if I want the ability to send “from” inside my account, then I’ll be forced to enter the SMTP server settings to send mail from When and why did Gmail make this change? A few years ago, Gmail changed that policy and now forces you to enter the SMTP server credentials for any new From Address you want to set up that isn’t hosted on Gmail or G Suite.įor example, I own the domain and one of my old email address is is NOT a G Suite domain. It used to be that you could configure any additional address that you own to use as a From Address in your Gmail account and have those emails send through Gmail’s servers. How to add a new “From” address to your Gmail account. If you then send a mail merge campaign “from” one of these alias addresses, it could impact your email deliverability because your emails may not get sent through Gmail’s high deliverability email servers.
In Gmail you have the ability to send not only from your or G Suite email address, but also any “alias” From Addresses that you configure in your Gmail Settings as well under “Send mail as”.
