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In Gmail settings, under Accounts, look for this setting:
When replying to a message:
(*) Reply from the same address the message was sent to
That's the simplest way. You'll still have to double-check the From: but at
least for 90% of the messages you'll start off the right way.
-T
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 1:14 PM, Haim Roman <haim -dot- roman -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> I believe gmail allows you to define a set of "from" addresses & change it
> from the default on each addresses.
>
> I'm not aware of being able to automatically set the "from " address based
> on the recipient address
>
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018, 23:03 Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> > I have several email addresses tied to my primary Gmail account
> > (salt.morton@).
> >
> > I have my default outbound address is set as chris -at- isntthatwrite -dot- com -dot-
> >
> > As a given thread goes past an initial reply on my end, subsequent
> replies
> > I make get routed to chris -at- isntthatwrite -dot- com by default. This has
> caused
> > me a lot of grief since I'm not trained to double-check every outbound
> > email for this occurrence.
> >
> > Would any of you know of a solution (other than dump Gmail and use
> > something like T'bird)?
> >
> > Chris Morton
> > (click logo â for details)
> >
> > <https://www.the-efa.org/memberinfo/chris-morton-10670/>
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