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Re:G Suite free edition no longer available starting July 1,... by stickfigure on Friday January 21, 2022 @01:00PM (#30027333)
> Only problem is that email replies will originate from the new personal addresses.

You can configure a regular gmail account to send from the custom domain. Visit:

Settings -> Accounts and Import -> Send mail as

You'll have to confirm ownership of the alternate email address, but it works fine. Even if the alternate email address is associated with a Gsuite domain.

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Re:G Suite free edition no longer available starting July 1,... by slivanes on Friday January 21, 2022 @01:12PM (#30027531)
I've looked previously, but it requested SMTP address + username/password. I wouldn't have those because that custom domain email address will be forwarded (receiving only - not send). Am I missing something here?
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Re:G Suite free edition no longer available starting July 1,... by precurse on Saturday January 22, 2022 @10:43AM (#30037607)
As long as your spf record allows Google to send mail, you can.

You need to setup an "App password" on your Google account. Then, when you create an alias, you enter smtp.gmail.com and your app password credential as the smtp server.

Here: https://support.google.com/domains/answer/9437157?hl=en

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Re:G Suite free edition no longer available starting July 1,... by hrunt on Friday January 21, 2022 @02:02PM (#30028342)
One problem I have found with this is that the iOS mail app does not have a provision for sending email through a different SMTP server. Has anyone seen a workaround for that? If you send a reply from iOS, even if you have configured the custom-domain email address as an alias on the account, recipients still see "on behalf of ..."
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Re:G Suite free edition no longer available starting July 1,... by Macha on Friday January 21, 2022 @01:32PM (#30027897)
This does have the disadvantage of rendering as "[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]" in gmail itself.
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Re:G Suite free edition no longer available starting July 1,... by Nemi on Friday January 21, 2022 @01:50PM (#30028166)
If you see my response above, the method I use removes that annoying caveat. Outbound emails are signed and validated using the custom domain through AWS SES and you don’t get “behalf of” label.
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