Ask HN: Any other email that does “Send as alternate” like Gmail?

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The one thing that keeps me on Gmail is I have a single account (G Suite for Business) and I pull in all the email from all my other domains to there.

Then when I respond, I can send as $OTHER_DOMAIN.

I'm just wondering if any of the other email servers and/or email turnkey solutions support that ?

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What email client doesn't do this? I was using this feature in Forte Agent 20 years ago.

Even the basic Samsung Email app on Android supports this.

I'm not a professional email administrator, but I thought this was more than just a function of the client, but you had to configure things on the back end too?

When you set it up in Gmail, it doesn't just let you add an alias and call it good. You still have to go to the source account settings and authorize your primary account to be able to send from alternate(s).

Since each email you send requires a login through your outgoing client (e.g. SMTP), your emailer has to know the server address, security type (e.g. TLS), etc.

Most clients configure this the first time you try to send vis that server and store the credentials for future use. You only need change these settings if your server credentials change..

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