· 9 years ago · May 07, 2017, 09:02 AM
1Scenario:
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3* I have a Google Account (not GMail) registered as foo@myisp.com.
4* I want to change to GMail as my email provider, dropping foo@myisp.com
5* I don't want to create a new Google Account, as I would have to start over on YouTube, Google Reader, Google Code, Google Docs, etc.
6* I want to keep the GMail account attached to the existing Google Account so Google Docs, Google Buzz, etc are properly integrated.
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9What's happened:
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11- Create a Google Account as foo@myisp.com
12- Create a GMail Account as foo@gmail.com, attached to the Google Account
13- Send an email from GMail:
14* GMail will arrive with unwanted "From:" of foo@myisp.com - no mention of foo@gmail.com
15- Add foo@gmail.com as an alternate Sender on the gmail.com account and send mail
16* GMail will arrive "From:" foo@gmail.com, but unwanted "Sender:" of foo@myisp.com
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18I can't find a way to nuke the unwanted foo@myisp.com completely. This will result in some people responding to the wrong address, which may belong to someone else in the future.
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21Some things I have tried:
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23* The non-GMail address can't be removed from the alternate sender settings
24* Removing foo@myisp.com from the Google Account and only leaving foo@gmail.com still leaves foo@myisp.com in place in GMail.
25* On deleting GMail from the account, I can't set foo@gmail.com as the account address in advance of re-creating that GMail account.
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28To get the reward, be the first to Tweet to @Soft with a solution that:
29* Works completely within GMail
30* Doesn't rely on extra servers - ie, no telling GMail to send through a third-party smtp server
31* Eliminates any reference to foo@myisp.com in GMail and Google Account both
32* Doesn't introduce any address other than foo@gmail.com
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35Test this before sending a solution, and make sure you understand the difference between Google Account and GMail. This sounds like something that should be really trivial. But it's not.