Multiple Gmail accounts in MacMail

Just for information:

With gmail, there is also another way. At the GMail website, open up settings. Go to the accounts tab. On Send Mail As, you can add the other account to it and configure the settings. You would have to do the same for the other account.

GMail's default behavior when sending a message from a different account is to change the address to account of the server you are using. That's why you had that trouble. You can actually add a different account like Yahoo and still use the server and have the correct address shown as long as it's set up.

Thanks for your troubleshooting.

When you do differentiate the outgoing servers with titles of your choice, be sure to go back and examine them to make sure the changes have taken hold. Also turn up your sound volume of your outgoing "whoosh" mail sound, to ensure the Gmail is being sent. Sometimes the outgoing Gmail server fails, for wifi networking or remote server reasons.

thanks much.. I had the same issue and your solution worked for me.. thanks again..

Thank you so much!!! this was driving me up the wall and this is the first suggestion that actually worked! 😀 😀

Thank you! After several hours of added, deleted and added again Gmail accounts. Thanks to this post, its fixed!!!!

HeadlessChief, thank you SO much for this, it got me on the right track for an issue that was becoming maddeningly vexing (and very inconvienient!). I had to go one step further than your directions, though.

Once I was in the "Edit SMTP server list" box I found I *was* using the correct server. On a whim I clicked the "Advanced" tab while still in the server list editing box, and found that the incorrect, OTHER gmail address was listed there! Once I changed that email to the correct one, my problems went away.

Whew!!

Thanks so much for the tip on the advanced settings while under the server. This helped me also!

Thanks, worked a treat 🙂

Really helpfull Glenn Leblanc,

Thx a lot !

Thank you, that was so helpful and worked!

Thank you, this was a real pain.

Work's well now!

Thanks so much. I've been really embarrassed with replies coming under my name but from a different email address.

It looks like it works.

Thank you... Thank you... Thank you!!! What I thought would be a simple set up of a second gmail account in Mac mail has cost me hours or time.Hopefully, this resolved my last issue. Thanks again for post.

Thanks! I actually stumbled on this by guess-and-check just the other day. Mails are finally being sent from the correct email addresses, even with both mailboxes configured, the outgoing mail was always sent "on behalf of" the email I was trying to avoid using.

However, some downsides-

1. Setup with 2-step verification is pretty elaborate...I had to enter my true password for each separate Gmail account, which worked for a few minutes, then BOTH stopped working and gave a credentials error. I had to go back and enter "app-generated" passwords for BOTH accounts, and verify both with codes on my phone. I will not enjoy doing that again

2. I get two notifications for every email now. Not sure why this occurs since I only added "outgoing" email servers, however when I open "connection doctor" I notice both the incoming and outgoing servers appear listed as separate accounts. That is, for three email addresses it shows 6 entries.

If anyone has a troubleshot for this double-notification, please reply.

This doesn't completely work if you configure in Gmail, even sending from the Gmail webpage, the recipient sees a massive bracket expression with this format:

IncorrectGmailAddress [sent on behalf of NotCorrectGmailAddress]