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  • Use Gmail to Send From Another Address

    Use Gmail to send from other email addresses.

    1. Go to Gmail account settings. Click the Settings icon at the top right, and click on “See all settings”.
    2. Go to the “Accounts and Import” tab.
    3. Look for the “Send email as” section and click on “Add another email address”. A popup should appear.
    4. In this popup, type in the name recipients will see.
    5. Enter the email address, eg max@example.com.
    6. Set the SMTP server to smtp.gmail.com and the port to 587.
    7. The username should be the part of the Gmail address before the @. So, if it’s max.example@gmail.com, just use max.example.
    8. Now, the password part gets interesting. Normally, the Gmail password would go here, but there’s a twist (thanks to Google’s tight security regarding its own products). The steps would be different depending on whether you have Two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled on your account or not.
      1. Without 2FA: Visit https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps and enable access for “less secure apps”. Then, use the Gmail password in the still-open Gmail popup.
      2. With 2FA: Head to https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords, create a new “App password” named “Gmail” or something similar. Copy the provided code and use it as the password in the Gmail popup.
    9. After navigating through these steps, a field asking for a confirmation code should appear. Check the inbox for an email containing this code. Copy it into the popup field to finalize the setup.
    10. In Gmail settings under “Accounts and Import” → “Send mail as”, and in the “When replying to a message:” section, choose “Reply from the same address the message was sent to”, for convenience.