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Resolved Question

How do i change email sender

Oct 13, 2013 7:46AM PDT

When someone sends me an email to my email setup at my own domain name i.e. anythining@mydomain.com it is forwarded by the registrar to my gmail email, through email forwarding settings.

I then use windows mail to read my email, but if i reply to the sender, it is replied by my gmail email address, not my personalised domain name email.

How do i make it look like the reply comes from my personalised email and not my gmail account.

My registrar does not provide this service, it would have to be an external solution.

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Let's call it what it is?
Oct 13, 2013 9:03AM PDT

This is called SPOOFING and I don't give folk any direct answer to such things. Why? Because it can be used for evil bad things. So on your search try the words How to spoof my return email address?
Bob

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Not spoofing, giving an accurate return path
Oct 13, 2013 6:59PM PDT

I am not asking how to send fake emails, there are plenty of websites that provide that service for free, just the capability to return an email on the path it came through (my domain name), as described in my initial post.

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Re: mail
Oct 13, 2013 7:03PM PDT

Just login to the smtp or webmail of your provider (mydomain.com in your example) and answer the mail. Don't use gmail.

Kees

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Problem solved
Oct 14, 2013 2:19AM PDT

Thanks for your assistance, but i have found the solution to my problem, it was to use a third party POP3 service. You just sign up to a free POP3 service and edit your MX records at the registrar.

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That's not the same. For example.
Oct 14, 2013 3:14AM PDT

You have the originating address and also a "reply to" field. As presented you made it sound you wanted to spoof the addresses. Changing the reply-to is not considered spoofing. Here's more about that.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7991?hl=en

It's all in how the question is phrased and I read it as if you wanted to spoof. If all I wanted was a different reply-to, I didn't need a third party.
Bob