Re: [Gmail-Users] How can I send truly anonymous mail through the usage of aliases / other e-mailadresses I own?

[Kenneth Ayers]

I understand perfectly what it is that you want to be able to do.
Unfortunately, you can't do that with Gmail. Gmail will set the
"From" field to the email address that you want displayed, however, it
still reveals your actual email address, the main one, in the "Sender"
field.

Some recipient emails may not display the Sender field unless the
recipient chooses to display full header information (e.g., Yahoo!).
Others will display the actual email address right away with that
Sender address on behalf of From address phrase.

There is no alternative to achieve what you want with Gmail.
Apparently they're not into Information Hiding.

Kenneth

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Marco Kelly <marco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is my first post so please bear with me ;)
>
> The situation I have is the following:
>
> I have a main gmail adress which practically handles all my e-mail.
> Via 'Send Mail As' I have set up a secondary gmail adress with an
> nonsensical name.
>
> I want to use this secondary gmail adress as a spam/anonymous adress/to give
> away.
>
> When I send an e-mail with my main gmail with the secondary gmail adress the
> following happens:
>
> When I send an e-mail to an Gmail adress it display as following:
>
> from: Weggeefadres secondary @gmail.com
>
> to: My Name <thirdemailadress @gmail.com>
>
> date: 26 January 2012 19:41
>
>
> Only my secondary emailadress shows (which is good since I don't anybody to
> know my main gmail adres. (But now comes the strange stuff)
>
>
>
> When I send an e-mail to an hotmail adress it displays as following:
>
> From: main @gmail.com on behalf of secondaryadres (secondary @gmail.com)
>
> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 7:17:00 PM
>
> To: my name (main @hotmail.com)
>
>
> It shows my main adresss. This is not what I want.
>
>
>
> What do I want?
>
> I want to send secondary e-mail (from my main adress) without showing my
> main adress. So not the on behalf part.
> The effect I want can of course be done to just login in my secondary
> account, but that is one step extra which I don't want.
>
>
> Thanks in advance for answering my question. If you need more information
> just tell me.
>
>
> Marco
>
>
>
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[Zack (Doc)]

GMail isn't hiding your information because that's a sure fire way to get marked as spam.  The Sender field is intended for exactly what GMail is using it for, but Microsoft decided a long time ago to use it "on behalf of" and ported that to all their products.  A few other mail vendors followed suit because MS is so big.

Nothing you can do about it, short of actually sending from the other account; which you can do with the send-mail-as feature setting the SMTP of the other server (which is still GMail in this case).

[APB]

As Kenneth said, there isn't any way to hide your main address when you are sending mail from that account, even if you are using a "Send as" address.

So what I do when I really don't want the recipient to see my main address, is to simply log in to that secondary account to send mail.  Gmail allows you to do that. 

Go to your account name in the top right corner and click on the down-pointing triangle. Choose "Switch account", and then "Sign into another account".  (I right-click on the last one so that I can open it in a new browser tab rather than replacing the account I'm already in.)

You will get a screen telling you which account(s) you are already signed in to (in that browser only, of course) and new spaces for login and password.  There's also some verbiage about what you can't do in this situation, but I've never been affected by it, so I've stopped reading it.

I don't *think* you need to do anything special to be able to do this, but I've been doing it for so long that I could have forgotten.  I'm sure someone will correct me if necessary.

Another option is to open another browser to sign into another account.  I just don't have the RAM to waste on another browser if I don't have to.

--APB