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While this is, in no way, endorsed by my employer - I've been using Gmail as my primary email client for some time now because it works well for me.  Using email rules on the server, I redirect all of my @unl.edu and @notes.unl.edu to Gmail (as well as all of my personal mail like @me.com).  It's a great system that, recently, got even better.  For as long as I have been using Gmail, by going to "Settings" and "Accounts and Import," you can add external email accounts to send from, but Gmail has always done strange things with email headers - sending messages "on behalf of" your external corporate address, from your personal @gmail address.  Not a huge deal because a lot of people never notice... but it can be really disturbing to others.  I've also had it cause problems with loops in mailing lists, and making me more likely to get filtered as junk mail.

Anyhow, when Google first (finally) released the functionality to use your local (in my case, smtp.unl.edu) email-out server, I couldn't get it to work.  As I've finally found some settings to make it work, I figured I should try to save others a little frustration.

I'm still not sure what's being blocked or where things are failing, but I've found that if I use my full "jdoe3@unl.edu" email address (Google seems to really depend on using a full email address as a username for their stuff) and My.UNL password, turn off SSL encryption, and specify port number 25 (see the attached graphic), it will work.  I've found it to work with my @mac.com and other email systems that I couldn't get to work before, too.

Now I don't have the problem with weird headers, or exposing my personal email address on business messages.