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Comment by MartinCron | Hacker News Reader

I have my first@last.com just forward to my gmail address and hen set up gmail to send as the other account. That way, I keep my vanity and my sanity.

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I used to do this too. My experience has been that certain email clients (Outlook on Windows, for one) will render your email address as

  first@last.us (sent by first.last@gmail.com)

Clearly not desirable, and in my case, unacceptable. I actually switched from the GMail webapp to multiple accounts in Mail.app for this reason alone. I miss the webapp, though.

You should be able to avoid this by setting up Gmail to use a different SMTP server:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=m...

(Click "I'm a Gmail or Google Apps user sending from an external address", then search for "on behalf of".)

Back on the webapp now. Thanks!

Interesting, I'm totally OK with that representation. I guess I'm not quite as vain as my vanity domain name would imply :) as long as my business cards look awesome (they do) that's all I really care about.

That doesn't work on mobile Gmail or Gmail via IMAP (like on iPhone Mail, for example). So it's a non-starter for me.

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