Gmail "send as" function

November 6, 2005 4:10 PM

Gmail question: having just got over my excitement over the "send as" funtion, has anybody else now lost this? am using mac/firefox, but have also tried on pc/IE/FFX and mac/safari to no avail.... anybody know what's going on...?
posted by spyke23 to Computers & Internet (13 answers total)

My send-as (if you mean the drop-down menu for choosing the from address) still works.
posted by duck at 4:51 PM on November 6, 2005

Mine works as well.
posted by reverendX at 5:09 PM on November 6, 2005

Could you somehow have switched yourself into the "simple html" gmail?
posted by duck at 5:53 PM on November 6, 2005

Yep...that's probably it. I just switched myself to "basic html" and my "send as" disappeared. At the bottom of your main screen you have "Gmail View: Standard HTML Basic HTML". Click standard.
posted by duck at 5:54 PM on November 6, 2005

Mine works just fine...
posted by nile_red at 6:22 PM on November 6, 2005

I'm on a mac and Gmail is set to standard view, but I don't have a "send as" function (Safari/Firefox).
posted by heatherann at 6:25 PM on November 6, 2005

Neither do I! FF/Mac. Where is it and how do you set it up?
posted by bonaldi at 6:43 PM on November 6, 2005

Response by poster: nope, have it set as standard view, and flipping betwixt the two makes no difference

was originally set up through the Accounts tab in settings.
posted by spyke23 at 7:02 PM on November 6, 2005

Best answer: I use the 'Send As...' feature, but I can disable it if I change my language preference from 'English (US)' to 'English (UK)'. Did you accidentally mis-set ths?
posted by schustafa at 6:02 AM on November 7, 2005

Best answer: I had to switch my language to English (US) from English (UK) before this feature appeared on my account.
posted by viama at 9:49 AM on November 7, 2005

I had no idea this was possible. Rock.
posted by cali at 9:18 PM on November 7, 2005

Response by poster: i changed the language and it worked! schustafa: you rock!
posted by spyke23 at 3:12 AM on November 8, 2005

keep in mind your gmail address is still in the headers and, depending on the mail client of the recipient, it may even be listed as the "from" address.
posted by marc10 at 1:27 AM on January 31, 2006