New Feature: "Add another Email Address

[Cracell]

ok here's the official page on it
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=%67mail&hl=en&answer=20616

Basically you can change who emails are from

I'm not exactly sure how this works, you can add any email address you
own to it, it then sends a message to that email address with a
confirmation link that you click to ensure you own the email address

Then you can send messages out that say they are from that email
address, some sort of forging or something going on? I can see this
being hack for easy impersonation

anyways I attached several screens
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[Cracell]

ok I sent a message to myself using a yahoo account for the "from"
here is what the header info looks like, is this considered forging?

<message>
X-Gmail-Received: e8813908b2a465f838dc2fc9c7aed71b160d59ce
Received: by 10.70.56.7 with HTTP; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 22:24:17 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <ebe34f2505082...@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 22:24:17 -0700
From: Cracell <weird...@yahoo.com>
Sender: cra...@gmail.com
To: Me <cra...@gmail.com>
Subject: Test
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Disposition: inline
Delivered-To: cra...@gmail.com

this is just a test
--=20

I just saved no money on my car insuarance by switching to Geico -
http://waquestions.blogspot.com/

</message>

[Derek]

Doesn't matter it's an awesome feature...

[Ryan E. Benson]

I don't have that yet.

[Derek]

Of the three accounts I check two had the new feature.

[Ryan E. Benson]

My other account doeesn't either.

[Ashok Chandran]

wow....cool feature..Google trying to make us use GMAIL alone for sending mail..clever boys...

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[Fuzzy Logic]

How would you hack this for easy impersonation?

Fuzzy

[Derek]

What do you mean by impersonation?

[Caleb]

i dont have it either :'( i was all excited cuz i wasnt going to have to use our stupid schools web server anymore.  oh well.

On 8/21/05, Ryan E. Benson <ryan....@gmail.com > wrote:

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Caleb
"Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off." --Zaphod Beeblebrox

[Fuzzy Logic]

Pretending to be someone else.

I'm doubting Cracell's assertion that this is easily abused.

Fuzzy

[Cracell]

ya I'm not sure......probaly wouldn't work...or at least wouldn't be
worth the trouble

On 8/21/05, Fuzzy Logic <fuz...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Pretending to be someone else.
>
> I'm doubting Cracell's assertion that this is easily abused.
>
> Fuzzy
>
> On 8/21/05, Derek <derek.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What do you mean by impersonation?
> >
> > On 8/21/05, Fuzzy Logic <fuz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > How would you hack this for easy impersonation?
> > >
> > > Fuzzy
> > >
> > > On 8/21/05, Cracell <cra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I can see this
> > > > being hack for easy impersonation
>

[T. M. Tracy]

Yeah, I can not stop using thunderbird to check my damn work mail. I
can check it all here now. Or create a new account and forward my
work mail to it. that way we can be @work.com instead of @gmail.com.
I love gmail interface, so it will be a great way to do it. heh

[T. M. Tracy]

So, does anyone else have this? Or is this just another web clips
that takes mothns to roll out. lol

[Fuzzy Logic]

I have it.

Also, I found something very nice (that people have been looking for).
You can enter a "differently-dotted" address as an alternate address.

For example, if you are bobbyhandlebar @ gmail.com, you can register
bobby.handlebar @ gmail.com as an alternate address... so, this is
good news for those who wanted different dotting in their addresses.

Fuzzy

[T. M. Tracy]

heh, nice. I want...I want. lol

On 8/21/05, Fuzzy Logic <fuz...@gmail.com> wrote:
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[Derek]

I've manage to consolidate all my email address into my main account
which is great. No more having to check other accounts.

[T. M. Tracy]

derek, you have it too!? lol

On 8/21/05, Derek <derek.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
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[Derek]

Yeh dude. I have it on two of the three accounts I use.

[T. M. Tracy]

damn you!!

[T. M. Tracy]

is there an web addy associated with any popup windows that you could paste? =p

[Derek]

Popup windows? Are you talking about the preview window? It's not
actually a popup window.

[T. M. Tracy]

Well, for instace, there are some popups with webclips...I didn't know
if there were any with this

[T. M. Tracy]

like http://mail.google.com/mail/?&view=ac takes me to add web clips,
even though I don't have the feature..heh

[Derek]

Hmm I don't think there's anything like that for the preview box.

[T. M. Tracy]

heh, I'm mad. lol, I want this feature...so hopefully it will roll
out to me soon. my gf has clips before I do too. lol

[Derek]

Webclips are lame. I hope that I never have to see them in my account.

[T. M. Tracy]

They are,,,but it's still something that I don't have. =p I like how
it de-ads everyting... heh

[Cracell]

haha...hmm let me see try this
http://mail.google.com/mail/?&ik=38c23677e1&view=cf&zx=sauryg-76aeo5

address of the popup window...

[T. M. Tracy]

lmao! that totally worked. I can now change who I send mail as, but
that section under settings isnt there, but when I go to send mail,
the dropdown is! sweet! thanks eric

On 8/21/05, Cracell <cra...@gmail.com> wrote:
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[T. M. Tracy]

you all might wonder why that link wont work if you click it... lol,
edit it to this
http://mail.google.com/mail/?&view=cf&zx=sauryg-76aeo5
and there you go. do what it says, and your in

[T. M. Tracy]

screenie

[Vik]

I just tried this trick, and sent a message from my Gmail account to my
work (non-Gmail) account which I read using Outlook. Outlook displayed
the From address as:

myrea...@gmail.com on behalf of Vik [myal...@notgmail.com]

That's a pain. I examined the email header info and while the From:
header does only contain my alternative name/email, there is a Sender:
field also that contains my bona-fide Gmail addy.

I wonder if this is a Gmail bug, an issue with this 'backdoor', or a
deliberate anti-spoofing measure by Google?

[Fuzzy Logic]

Option #3. Deliberate anti-spoofing. Why is it a pain? The From: field
contains the correct email address, so people who recieve it should be
able to reply without any problem.

Fuzzy

[Vik]

It's a pain because while I don't mind people being able to figure out
my gmail addy if they know where to look, I don't want it to be
immediately visible in a message list. Not because I wish to deceive
someone, but because I want to use the feature with my full name or
nickname or antispam forwarding address or whatever. The "on behalf of"
crap can look confusing or suspicious. Anyway, I had to validate my
alternative address, so where's the spoofing problem?

[Matt Bowler]

A little bit of trivia: I noticed my new features link had vanished
this morning so I went to the settings, but still no sign of the new
feature. I read on another forum that if you change the gmail language
from English (UK) (which is how I have it now) to English (US), the
new feature appears. I didn't believe it, but I tried it, and
immediately I was able to change the from address! Changing the
language back to UK lost the feature. Is this the first time Google
have rolled out a feature based on language I wonder?

Matt

On 8/22/05, Vik <hotsp...@gmail.com> wrote:
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[Vik]

I now have the Accounts tab!

[beancounting]

I am sad as I still dont have the send from another email address :(

[Scott Villarosa]

Nice find.

[Caleb]

yeah, i just got it too.  so they really are rolling this one out, its not like webclips.

On 8/23/05, Vik <hotsp...@gmail.com > wrote:

I now have the Accounts tab!

--
Caleb
"Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off." --Zaphod Beeblebrox

[T. M. Tracy]

yeah, but the webclips is really lame, my gf has it, and i checked it
out...and it is really lame

[Ryan E. Benson]

I found a GM script to block em man. Its the Hide Clippy Ads script ;-)

[Derek]

OK I have a new feature that should be added to this multi from
address thing.. Google should automatically use the replied to email
address when replying to received messages.

Example. I send an email out from my Gmail account using my
uneasysilence address. When someone replies to that email, any replies
from me should automatically use the ues address instead of me having
to manually change the FROM address each time.

On 8/20/05, Cracell <cra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ok here's the official page on it
> http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=%67mail&hl=en&answer=20616
>
> Basically you can change who emails are from
>
> I'm not exactly sure how this works, you can add any email address you
> own to it, it then sends a message to that email address with a
> confirmation link that you click to ensure you own the email address
>
> Then you can send messages out that say they are from that email
> address, some sort of forging or something going on? I can see this
> being hack for easy impersonation
>
> anyways I attached several screens

[Caleb]

yeah, definately.

[T. M. Tracy]

bingo

On 8/23/05, Caleb <cale...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Ryan E. Benson]

That would be logical

On 8/23/05, Derek <derek.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
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[Matt Bowler]

I like this new feature, it enables me to use the plus addressing more
effectively as I can now reply from one of those addresses. Nice work
Google!

[Julie Fisher]

Thank you, Thank you, I still don't have the Accounts feature, but with this workaround I don't need it, and Gmail will now do all that I want in one email system.

Wonderful.