If you take advantage of Gmail’s option to send messages within Gmail using one of your other email addresses in the “from” line, you may be aware that your email is depicted in some email software as being from your Gmail address “on behalf of” your other email address. In the Gmail blog last week, Google announced a new option that eliminates the need to show your Gmail address and the “on behalf of” text.

The option is available if your other email provider supports POP or IMAP access.  To take advantage of this new option, go to the Accounts page under Settings, and click “edit info” from the “Send mail as” section.  From there, choose “Use your other email provider’s SMTP servers” and complete the blanks with your server and password information.

Should your other email provider not have a server that allows you to send outbound messages, you can still use the original method.