Hi @chantlerftw,
Thanks for reaching out! Did you add other email addresses to your Gmail email account as alias emails?
In case it helps, please try following this guide and add your other emails.
Then, you should be able to send emails using those emails.
I hope this helps. Thanks!
Hi Darshana,
That was the solution that worked. However, can you explain the functionality of the ‘force from email’ checkbox? Does it not work with gmail, but works with other SMTP services?
Hi @chantlerftw,
The Gmail mailer can only send emails using the registered “from addresses” (email aliases).
If a 3rd party plugin is trying to send out an email with a from email address, that is not registered as an alias in your Gmail account, then it will fall back to the Gmail email address that was used to create the OAuth connection in the plugin. The “Force From Email” setting is ignored in this case.
If you enable the “Force From Email” setting and if you select an alias email from the dropdown, that alias will be used to send all emails from your WordPress site.
If you disable the “Force From Email” setting, you can use registered aliases throughout the WP site as the from email addresses, but if one of those is not a registered email alias, the default email address will be used to send emails.
I hope that’s clear. Thanks!
