Comments on: Google offers Free Hosted Applications http://freebizware.com/37/google-offers-free-hosted-applications/ Free and Open Source Business Softwares Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:12:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ken http://freebizware.com/37/google-offers-free-hosted-applications/comment-page-1/#comment-194 Ken Sun, 24 Sep 2006 13:40:49 +0000 http://freebizware.com/37/google-offers-free-hosted-applications/#comment-194 I'm aware of this and agree with you that it actually doesn't work well with Outlook users. But this is problem (or feature, depending on who you talk to) and is much more complicated than that. It is not an issue of just changing the From: It got to do with the email protocol (RFC). And without pretending I know alot about it, I believe GMail is following the book. It is also has a security angle. Contrary to your observation, Outlook, no Gmail, is the one that cause it to display "on behalf of". I do not know what the Outlook team thinks but I like to predict that they will tell you that it is for your good that they are alerting the you that the email is not coming from the address you are expecting. So can you fault them? To me, yes it is an issue, but I'm not trying to hide behind a false email, so I'm not worry that my customers sees it. I just use a code for my email and tell them (if they ask) I'm using it to read all my mails. I’m aware of this and agree with you that it actually doesn’t work well with Outlook users.

But this is problem (or feature, depending on who you talk to) and is much more complicated than that.

It is not an issue of just changing the From:
It got to do with the email protocol (RFC). And without pretending I know alot about it, I believe GMail is following the book.

It is also has a security angle.
Contrary to your observation, Outlook, no Gmail, is the one that cause it to display “on behalf of”.
I do not know what the Outlook team thinks but I like to predict that they will tell you that it is for your good that they are alerting the you that the email is not coming from the address you are expecting. So can you fault them?

To me, yes it is an issue, but I’m not trying to hide behind a false email, so I’m not worry that my customers sees it. I just use a code for my email and tell them (if they ask) I’m using it to read all my mails.

]]> By: Duncan http://freebizware.com/37/google-offers-free-hosted-applications/comment-page-1/#comment-193 Duncan Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:14:52 +0000 http://freebizware.com/37/google-offers-free-hosted-applications/#comment-193 "personally find GMail has an edge over the rest for the business user as it can send email as another address." ... However, it does not really send email as another address. Rather than REALLY changing the From: address, the actual From: header says "From: yourname@gmail.com on behalf of youraddress@yourdomain.com" ... and if it's not bad enough showing your actual GMail address, Outlook doesn't even process the On behalf of, and those users end up writing back to/storing your GMail address. “personally find GMail has an edge over the rest for the business user as it can send email as another address.”

… However, it does not really send email as another address. Rather than REALLY changing the From: address, the actual From: header says “From: yourname@gmail.com on behalf of youraddress@yourdomain.com” … and if it’s not bad enough showing your actual GMail address, Outlook doesn’t even process the On behalf of, and those users end up writing back to/storing your GMail address.

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