Gmail…your taunting continues
I’ve spent a lot of time - most visibly in this series of posts [turnipville.com] - complaining about the shortcomings of Gmail’s "send from" feature. I found out the hard way just how Google’s message headers result in the infamous "On Behalf of" tag in front of your e-mail address…and I was devastated.
My frustration was substantial enough that it sent me running to to a premium Yahoo! account, then to Runbox, over to a small stint with Mail.app, and finally back to Yahoo!.
Well, it’s all clear now. Google’s launched domain e-mail hosting. Like everything else they do, it’s in Beta…but they’ve approved mine, and I’m giving it a run.
I’ve moved all of the turnipnetwork.com e-mail over to Gmail, and will be testing it over the next several weeks. My first impressions are simple: it looks like Gmail, and I can send e-mail from turnipnetwork.com addresses WITHOUT the dreaded "On Behalf of".
This is an excellent solution for organizations that have several accounts, and want some quality e-mail options. It’s not the answer for people who are looking for a way to manage several different e-mail addresses.
It’s probably perfect for those of you who are starting up your own websites, but don’t have the time or budget to wage a full-scale e-mail campaign.
August 27th, 2006 at 9:26 am
I really liked Gmail’s GUI and adding it to my own domain as its GUI is a very powerful notion by Google. I have to thank them for making this happened