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Gmail is ending “Send mail as” for custom domains
If you read your domain’s email in Gmail and send from it with “Send mail as”, that setup stops working in January 2027. Your incoming mail isn’t affected. Here’s what changes and how to keep sending from your domain.
What Google announced
According to Google’s support page, starting in January 2027 Gmail will no longer support:
- “Send mail as” for third-party addresses. You won’t be able to send from an address outside Gmail, including one on your own domain, in Gmail on the web or in the Gmail apps.
- Gmailify, which added Gmail’s spam protection and inbox features to other accounts.
- POP fetching on the web, which pulled mail from another account into Gmail.
Google says Google Workspace aliases and other Gmail addresses you own are not affected.
Are you affected?
You probably are if your domain’s mail is forwarded into Gmail by a forwarding service or your registrar, and you added the address under Settings → Accounts and Import → Send mail as so replies come from your domain. That covers most free “custom domain in Gmail” setups.
You aren’t affected if your domain is on Google Workspace, or if you only receive mail at your domain and always reply from your Gmail address.
What keeps working
- Mail forwarded from your domain into Gmail keeps arriving.
- Your Gmail inbox, labels, filters and search stay the same.
- Sending from your Gmail address itself is unchanged.
Your options
- Move to Google Workspace. Your domain becomes a full Google mailbox. It’s a paid plan per user.
- Send from a different mail app. Apps like Apple Mail and Thunderbird can send through your provider’s SMTP server while reading Gmail over IMAP. You leave the Gmail app for sending.
- Use a forwarder that sends for you. ForwardMailTo forwards your domain’s mail into Gmail and sends your replies and new emails from your domain, so you keep using Gmail with no “Send mail as” or SMTP settings. See how to send from your domain in Gmail.
When to switch
Google gives January 2027 as the date. Switching early means you can test replies and new emails while your current setup still works, instead of finding out on the day your sending stops.