Can I use an alias to send emails with the mail api?

[John Louis Del Rosario]

Say I have 'ad...@mydomain.com' added as an admin to my project, and it has an alias named 'nor...@mydomain.com'. Will I be able to send emails from my project as 'nor...@mydomain.com'? Or does noreply need to be a real GApps account?

[Jim]

I'm not certain of every circumstance where this will work, but this is how we do it:

If you set up nor...@mydomain.com as a Developer on your project then you'll be able to send emails "from" that address.  You can just setup a Google Accounts account for nor...@mydomain.com and then invite the account to be a Developer on your project; no GApps account required.

[John Louis Del Rosario]

Sorry, I'm not an admin so I'm not familiar with the terms, but what's the difference between a "Google Accounts account" and a "GApps account"? We use GApps, doesn't that make our Google accounts GApps accounts by default?

Thanks

[Jim]

This page describes the differences in detail:  https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/72709?hl=en

In a nutshell, when using Google Apps you own the domain and sign up for Google Apps (email, docs, calendar, etc) for your business.  Your email service is hosted on Google's gmail infrastructure.

With a simple Google Account you can sign up using any old email address hosted anywhere and Google send a confirmation email to the address that you specify.  Once you click a link in the confirmation email your Google Account is activated and you can then use the GAE dashboard to invite the account to be a developer on your app.

[John Louis Del Rosario]

Thanks Jim. Makes sense now.