Sending emails from Gmail account on Iphone Masking Issue

[2macfreaks]

If I go on the web and go to my gmail account, I have the outgoing email address masked as my personal domain name...

example gmail address is sillyname@gmail.com, but when I send an email out of gmail the recipients see sillyname@sillysite.com. They don't know it's being sent from my gmail account.

On my iphone, if I send an email from my gmail email (using email client not safari browser) account my email name doesn't get masked.

Is there a fix for this? Sorry for the long worded question.

P.S. I do have a POP account, but it doesn't work on my iphone without wifi access so I have to resort to gmail.

 

[Robb315]

I think the Safari way is the only way.

 

[2macfreaks]

I sent google an email to see if they can fix it, but in reality something is going on probably on iphones side.

 

[gazzzmoly]

is your gmail account set to pop or imap you could try changing the protocol see if that helps


i have just checked my gmail account make sure you have set the email you want as your default sent email in gmail settings

 

[2macfreaks]

I setup the IMAP, confirmed that I can send outgoing emails, but it still doesn't mask my email address.

I've heard that I need a different outgoing server for my pop mail acct and then I could use that instead of gmail. Do you know an AT&T outgoing server I could try?

 

[emotion]

If I go on the web and go to my gmail account, I have the outgoing email address masked as my personal domain name...

example gmail address is sillyname@gmail.com, but when I send an email out of gmail the recipients see sillyname@sillysite.com. They don't know it's being sent from my gmail account.

On my iphone, if I send an email from my gmail email (using email client not safari browser) account my email name doesn't get masked.

I do exactly this and it works fine. Did you set up the gmail account details on the phone rather than sync with the Mail.app settings from your mac (assuming you have a mac, of course)? That's how I did it.

I also use another smtp server that I have access to. I don't use Google's own (this may be the agent that's changing the sent-from address).

 

[2macfreaks]

Hi! I did sync with my MacBook pro the first time.
I have setup the gmail account thru my iphone as well. It doesnt seem to matter.

What does it take to use a different outgoing server (SMTP)?

 

[emotion]

Hi! I did sync with my MacBook pro the first time.
I have setup the gmail account thru my iphone as well. It doesnt seem to matter.

What does it take to use a different outgoing server (SMTP)?

Most of these things are locked down to prevent spammers etc if you have your own domain then maybe the people you got it off/registered it have one you can use.

 

[2macfreaks]

I am going thru all of this just so my gmail address is masked with my domain email address?!?

I just am surprised its this complicated, and that nobody else has had trouble like this before on their iphone.

 

[2macfreaks]

So if I start all over again... What are the steps to make this work? Should I call ATT wireless to get tech support or apple.com?

 

[gazzzmoly]

"if you’d like to use a custom “from” address when sending from iPhone (not your Gmail address) — just pop it in the Email Address field (not the authentication fields) and it will use that address instead of your Gmail."

 

[2macfreaks]

Oh my god! I thought I had tried that before, but that clearly worked and now my iphone is complete!

Thanks So much for helping me!

This forum rocks and thank you for your generous help

 

[hebrewzzi]

Re: iPhone/Gmail Masking Issue

"if you’d like to use a custom “from” address when sending from iPhone (not your Gmail address) — just pop it in the Email Address field (not the authentication fields) and it will use that address instead of your Gmail."

Can you walk that through for us dummies? I started from scratch and added a new account (did the whole IMAP thing) and I put in my "yourname@yourname.com" as the address and put in my Gmail account info in the authentication fields...but it still wants to send e-mails as my Gmail account and not my mask. Any suggestions?