paul thurrott

Since GMail came into invite-beta I’ve had an account, and last year, when I finally got BradArsenault.com, I added a Google Apps domain which is connected to it. So now I have two email accounts. Back in August of last year I connected the email accounts together by fetching my BradArsenault.com email through Google’s POP download function and can send via the other account with a similar tool built into GMail.

The problem is that when ever I send a message it says in the from address: “(my gmail account) on behalf of brad(at)bradarsenault.com”. This is a problem because I want people to see only my bradarsenault.com address, and to hide my GMail account with it. So I have an idea!

I’m going to move all of my mail from my GMail to BradArsenault.com mail, using another Google tool I’ve heard about (the name slips my mind for some reason). But that’s not going to be easy, because I have a dream, yeah, another dream, to get an email address crafted to be awesome for an email address (thanks to Mark Christian for this [shinyplasticbag.com] @shinyplasticbag) br@darsenault.com or brad@rsenault.com… see, awesome!

Moral of the story: I need a better client because I will have to log-in to all of these accounts separately and manage my email in different locations. Unless that is, I give up the freedom of GMail and move….ewww… to a mail client (such as Mail or Outlook). That seems to be my only good, viable solution.

Sorry if this seems like a rant, but if Google would only remove that “on behalf of” (what I call) bug, everything would be happier and sunnier.

**I apologize for that: but I’m just not agreeing with GMail today.