GMail appearing to ignore Reply-To

Question

I\'m using a gmail account to send emails from my website. I\'m using the same account to pick up emails which are generated by the contact facility on my site.

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Answer 1

EDIT: This doesn't actually appear to work when I programatically send mail. Still investigating if theres a way to get it to work with this

There is a feature in gmail itself to allow you to change the reply to address.

I can't figure out a way to dynamically change the reply to address, but here's how you can do it if you need to send email from several addresses (such as shipping, orders, feedback) but have it reply to a separate account.

Here's how I have it set it up.

Email address ($50/year) :

 automated@example.com          (I use this account to send from in code)
 customerservice@example.com    (customer service logs into this account)

Aliases (free) :

 shipping@example.com
 mark@example.com
 orders@example.com
 feedback@example.com

All these aliases are configured to send mail to automated@example.com and they are put into labels there via filter rules.

I send out from shipping, orders, feedback but want any replies to come to customerservice.

Here's how I set it up :

• Log into gmail as automated - must be logged in directly as the user you're sending from
• Click the accounts tab
• Add each alias you want to send from with the Add another email address you own feature
• Log in to customerservice and approve all the requests that should have been sent to each alias.
• Log back in as automated and click edit info next to each email
• Here you can click Specify a different "reply-to" address and enter customerservice@example.com as the reply to address.

I have slightly more complex reasons that I won't go into here why I have things set up like this - but if you want to change the 'reply-to' address this is the only way I've found to do it. Aliases allow you to send from multiple addresses and set reply-to to whatever you want. unfortunately though I cannot find a way to do this in code but it may work for some people.