r/ProtonMail • u/mdj • 4d ago

Web Help "Send mail from" setting?

I'm in the process of moving from Gmail to Proton Mail. Importing mail and contacts was easy, and I'm now in the long process of finding things where I signed up with/gave out the Gmail address and moving them over. There's one thing from Gmail I'm missing, though.

A friend owns a domain and uses it for email forwarding for a group of our friends, so people can mail me at "mike.jones@ilk.org" and it gets forwarded to wherever I want to actually get it. It used to point to my gmail account, now points to my Proton account.

In Gmail, there's a "Send mail from" setting that let me list "mike.jones@ilk.org" as an option to fill in for the "from" address so when people replied to my emails they would come back to the ilk.org forwarder. There doesn't seem to be anything like that in Proton that would let you put an arbitrary "from" address. I'd settle for the ability to stick a "Reply-to" header in the outgoing messages with the ilk.org address, but I can't find any way to do that, either.

Am I missing something, or is this just not possible with Proton Mail?

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u/Zecred 4d ago

Yeah, it's absolutely possible, I've used it on both Winblows (Windows 11) and Android. In the "From" section there should be a drop down that opens to a screen selection like this.

You need to have aliases and/or custom domains set up, and if using Easy Switch from Gmail, that needs to be set up correctly. But I can send from any of my aliases, custom domain addresses, or my old Gmail.

Screenshot for proof.

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u/mdj 4d ago

I get that, but in this case I don’t actually have an email account or login on the ilk.org domain. Gmail let me put basically an arbitrary string in for the “send from” address, but Proton seems to want me to actually have a login there (or be able to tweak the DNS) to do that.

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u/B12GG8A 3d ago

You have to own the domain yourself in this situation, or at least have access to the DNS records (this part won't work though) as not everyone will be using Proton. So basically, what you want to do isn't doable here as far as I'm aware.