Send Emails on Behalf of
How to send emails on behalf of someone else?
This article describes how to send emails on behalf of someone else such as your boss or someone else within your organization.
Step 1: Add new Send mail as account
Open your Gmail account settings and follow these instructions to add a new Send mail as account.
Click on the logos below to view SMTP settings for some popular services.
NOTE: If you are using another Gmail account as an alias email address, you need to enable Less Secure App Access.
Step 2: Select alias email address
Restart Mail Merge add-on and select your recently added alias email address:
In the Google Docs Mail Merge sidebar, click on Show Email Settings, and then select your alias email address from the From Email Account drop-down menu.
In the Google Sheets Mail Merge dialog box, select your alias email address from the From Email Account drop-down menu.
Google Docs, Slides
Google Sheets, Forms
NOTE:
The From Email Account drop-down menu only appears in the Google Docs Mail Merge sidebar if you have already added an alias email address, as described in step 1 above.
The Send mail as feature does not allow you to send emails over SMTP using your own account or other accounts within your Google Workspace domain. Therefore, if you want to use a third-party email provider (such as SendGrid) to send emails over SMTP with your Gmail account, you need to set the provider's SMTP settings.