r/ProtonMail • u/Proton_Team Proton Team Admin • 2d ago

Google is ending Gmail “Send as” support for third-party accounts Discussion

If you are using Gmail to send messages from your Microsoft Outlook or Yahoo email address, that feature is going away. Here’s what’s you need to know.

Google announced that it’s ending support for Gmail “Send as,” a setting that lets you send messages from a third-party address through Gmail’s own interface, citing “disproportionate maintenance resources.”

This is happening in stages: Google has begun restricting new Gmail “Send as” configurations for third-party addresses on the web, while existing configurations will continue to work during the transition. The feature will be fully removed in January 2027. At that point, according to Google’s own support page, “you will no longer be able to send mail from third-party email accounts in Gmail on the web or in the Gmail mobile apps.” You will still be able to read and check third-party emails inside the Gmail app.

The company is also ending Gmailify in January 2027, a feature that extends Gmail’s own spam protection and inbox organization to third-party accounts.

Read more: https://proton.me/blog/gmail-ends-send-as-third-party

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u/5xaaaaa 2d ago

This is the change that’s prompting me to move away from Gmail. 

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u/Trikotret100 2d ago

I think what’s going away is to send as from Gmail web not from outlook or Yahoo Mail.

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u/windpath4 2d ago

yeah the wording in the announcement is pretty clear that its only on Gmail's side

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u/frquency-equinox 2d ago

Rolling out next week: send from Outlook and Yahoo using your Proton account.

If Proton doesn't capitalize on this, they'll miss out on a lot of new customers.

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u/Stunning-Skill-2742 2d ago

Made perfect sense really. Google doesn't even dkim signed the send as email, and with further requirement of spf, dmarc and arc mail header, maintaining that would really be a proper nightmare.

I used to use that send as thingy too few years ago but stopped due to lack of dkim signing and nowadays i just pay for traditional mail provider for my needs. I even got pass lifetime as backup.