[174364] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: no more "Send through Gmail" option
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ITechGeek)
Fri Sep 5 19:06:44 2014
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Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 19:01:41 -0400
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As a replacement, you can use Amazon SES and verify single email addresses
if you don't have access over the whole domain.
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On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Royce Williams <royce@techsolvency.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Eduardo A. Su=C3=A1rez
> <esuarez@fcaglp.fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > according to this thread:
> >
> >
> https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/gmail/GyeMcHv1U-g=
%5B1-25-false%5D
> >
> > Gmail isn't allowing anymore "Send through Gmail" option.
>
> Yep. Existing email-address setups are grandfathered, but no new ones
> can be added via the UI.
>
> It's probably a mix of "let's support the ecosystem by only sending
> mail from servers authorized by the domain holder" and "let's sell
> more Google for Work email hosting".
>
> If it really was more the former, there would be a "if your SPF
> records include:_spf.google.com, you can still do it" option, IMO.
>
> Royce
>
