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Sending from yahoo address, replies coming to gmail address

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When people's responses went to my gmail address I assumed I'd sent it from gmail. but I realise now that this always happens! Just recently an important email arrived to my gmail address when I knew it shouldn't have. I do receive a lot of emails to my yahoo address, it's just responses to an email from my yahoo address that come to my gmail address

When people's responses went to my gmail address I assumed I'd sent it from gmail. but I realise now that this always happens! Just recently an important email arrived to my gmail address when I knew it shouldn't have. I do receive a lot of emails to my yahoo address, it's just responses to an email from my yahoo address that come to my gmail address

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That's a "gotcha" with gmail's smtp server. It silently replaces the "from:" address with its own.

It seems to me it would be safer if it just gave the usual error message about relaying not being allowed.

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In the incoming e-mail that you think should be going to Yahoo, not Gmail, which of your addresses is listed in "To"?

1. Before you send your next e-mail, look at the outgoing address you are using, make sure it is the correct address.

2. Check to make sure you don't have a "Reply To" address set: Thunderbird Menu: Tools: Account Settings: To to your Yahoo account, and on the right side below "Your Name" and "E-mail Address", is "Reply-to Address".

3. Check to see if you told Yahoo to forward your e-mails to your Gmail address.

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Thank you Bruce. Although your suggestions didn't help directly, they made me look at the account settings. I had the default outgoing server for the yahoo account as the google one. When I set the accounts up that appeared to work, but as I now realise it made the emails sent from my yahoo account appear as if they had come from my google account.

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Gekose oplossing

That's a "gotcha" with gmail's smtp server. It silently replaces the "from:" address with its own.

It seems to me it would be safer if it just gave the usual error message about relaying not being allowed.