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My university gives me an email that looks like
ab123456@domain
Fortunately, I am allowed to make an alternate name for my email, like
first.last@domain
All of the email is still sent through ab123456. In fact, when I set up the SMTP settings, I have to use this address. On my desktop client, I can send emails that say that they were sent from first.last. Is there a way of doing this in the new Gmail app?
I am using the new Gmail app (which absorbed the Email app) in Android 5.0.
Proper aliases, where you can pick either address as the sender, isn't possible in Gmail. However, in your case I understand you never want to use ab123456@domain; you always want to use first.last@domain.
In that case, when adding a new account, use first.last@domain as your email address and choose manual setup. Enter your password when prompted and then, in the incoming server settings, change your username to ab123456@domain. Enter all other settings and do the same for the outgoing server.
Now you have email setup for your account that will always use first.last@domain when sending email. It will of course read email sent to either.
I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but you can send emails from Gmail through multiple accounts and set the account that you want. I use [email protected], and myworkemail@myworkdomain, both going through my Gmail app. When I compose an email, I change the email address under "From". However, to get that, I changed the settings on the web to allow me to control access to that account. I might be wrong.
If you want to try it, you can go to Settings > Accounts and Import on the web and look under Send Mail As. You can then add another email address that you own, which would be your first.name@domain email address. I believe that would work. I don't know if anyone else has a better idea, but that's what I do. I know my example uses two different domains, but the principle is the same.
