Google's mail servers do not allow you to spoof the "FROM" email 
address.  It will always come from the authenticated account.

i.e.  If I'm using google's mail servers, and login as 
thisper...@gmail.com, I cannot send from thatper...@gmail.com or 
anotherper...@site.com

Stefan Richter wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've configured mail in CF Admin using smtp.gmail.com with my personal GMail 
> account details (username and password). Mail is being sent without problems. 
>
> However users of one of the websites where I use the CFMAIL tag and a 'from' 
> address of i...@site.com tell me that the email arrives as having been sent 
> from me, using my GMail address. What am I missing? Shouldn't the 'from' in 
> CFMail take priority? That's what I seem to remember always happened when I 
> used my own SMTP server in the past.
>
> BTW I am not specifying server details or credentials in the CFMail tag 
> itself, they are only specified in CFadmin.
>
> Cheers 
>
> Stefan
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