I believe you need to go into Gmail Settings, Accounts and Imports, Send Mail As;, and set the email address you want to show as the account you send from as Default (click on Make Default). Try it, and send yourself an email. I just tried from my browser, and it worked fine.
Not sure what “app” you are trying to use to send mail. iOS or Android?
I did exactly the same and in “from” box it shows my domain
But when i check the my other account ( for example my yahoo) that i sent a test email to it shows my original domain google account Not my romain nor my gmail that i linked it to
Thats on web
And my ios gmail app doesn’t have any option to choose the “from” to that domain at all
Now I’m confused. You talk about 2 gmail accounts being involved.
You mention “original domain google account” and “gmail that i linked it to”
On Google Domain webpage, I set up each of the domain email addresses to forward to a specific gmail address I use as my base email. I try not to send anything out with that base email address.
When I send emails from a domain email address, I do so only from the base gmail webpage or Gmail app logged into that base gmail address, selecting the domain email address from the dropdown selection on the “From” line. When I send a test message to my yahoo address, and look at the email address it is from (looking at email on Yahoo Mail, iOS Mail app, and forwarded to gmail), it shows the domain email address I set as default under the “Send From” setting.
Is “original domain account” a gmail account?
Let me give full detail
Suppose tgat i have 2 gmail and one yahoo
I bought domain with g1 account( when i wanted to buy the fomain i was logged in g1 account)
Created a a@mydomain.com in g1 panel and connected that to send emails to g2
Then on g1 domain dashboard & created app password
Then in g2 gmail setting (send email as) i put
My name
My domain email
smtp.google.com
My g1
My given passcode in dashboard
( that was the only thing it accepted)
It said accepted
Confirmation email
Everything went well
Then i logged in yahoo and sent a test email to a@mydomain.com
Then logged in g2 and saw the email in g2 inbox 
But
When i log in g2 and compose a new email
From : a@myfonain.com
To: @yahoo.com
Send
log into yahoo and check mail
Email is sent from g1! Not a@mydomain nor even g2
Separately,
And if i go to gmail app on ios there is no a@mydomain.com option in “from”
I think I got it.
You created a domain email address on the Google Domain webpage, and you set it to send emails to your g2.gmail.com address.
You then went to your g1.gmail.com account and created an app password.
You then went to your g2.gmail.com account and in that account settings, you set up the “Send As” settings using your g1@gmail.com address and the app password you created on the g1@gmail.com account. So, you have setup your g1@gmail.com account to use your domain address. Not what you wanted. You wanted to do it from your g2@gmail.com address.
If you intend to use the g2@gmail.com account as your base account, you need to create the app password settings when you are logged into the g2@gmail.com account, and do the “Send As” setup on the g2@gmail.com settings, with the g2@gmail.com account name after the smtp.google.com (I think that should be smtp.gmail.com).
The alternative is to do all of the this only on the g1@gmail.com address.
If you want to test my theory, log into your g1@gmail.com account and send a test email. See where it says that came from. Also, on your iOS device gmail app, log into the g1@gmail.com account, and see if you find the domain email address listed in the “From” dropdown.
Basically, you need to decide which gmail account you want all your email to come from and go to, and configure only that account. All other email accounts should be setup to forward to that account. And, setup only that account with “Send As” options.
Hope I got that all right.
That’s been my issue too, just wanting something easy yet unique. I don’t think the wife cares for @lastname.email. I had the idea to do @lastna.me, but that was taken. Besides, I’m sure whatever I settle on my kids will hate and end up using gmail and icloud.
So, let me make sure I understand things, as I have read the various posts - but over the course of the thread, which has been around a while…
I can get my own domain name and have the email for that domain name sent to my Google gmail acct.
Then, I can go into the settings in Gmail and change things so - If I use the Gmail acct to receive and send emails… It will NOT appear to have come from my gmail account, but will appear to have been sent to and from my new domain name, right?
If I send someone an email and I paid for my own domain name, I don’t want it to still appear to have come from gmail.
All that is correct, right?
Correctomundo 
Ok, then I will just have to figure out the email settings once I figure out a domain name.
And, on Gmail, is it easy to create any email address with that domain name for various things - like having different ones for different sign ups (like verizon@mynamedomain.com and specificdoctor@mynamedomain.com)?
That’s correct and if that works you can create up to 100 different ones
I need to check and post back if that works
Although there is a thing mentioned in google support page that says some outlook users etc may see the original gmail account 
Yea, that defeats the purpose…
Thank you so much for making it clear
It works really fine now and the best part is i can now reply my old emails with the new one so there is no need to tell some people to send emsils to my new address as well
Next step is to see if i can create multiple addresses to send to and receive from same gmail box
O and it works on mobile apps as well
Strikes me this would make for an excellent ask the tech guy!
Despite my love to listen to the tech guy I never could call or join the chat room
Always stuck in “request “
This was a really good experience just need to mention a couple of concerns:
My best use would be having a cool and unique email for my family, friends,etc
And create a quick dummy email for applying in web sites
But!
1-The reliability for setting this as banks and legal accounts is a concern
2-Further more giving it to people verbally makes a higher chance to misspell (vs like gmail or so)
3- i have doubts on spammers guessing my other emails that i may create to push spam attacks easily to my emails even though I didn’t giving them up
I think gmail will still filter incoming spam like if it was from your gmail acct
A couple of “short” comments;
I googled “show full email” and clicked on the support.google.com “trace an email with its full header”, then analysed the test message I had used answering above. I had sent the message from my gmail account set up to send under my domain address to a yahoo account. On the normal email clients and webpage displays, I only see the domain address. On the forwarded version to my gmail “base” account, the analysis showed a very complex, what appears to be encrypted .gmail.com address, but no tracing. When I followed instructions on tracing on yahoo, I do see the original “base” .gmail.com address in the full trace. So, if someone is really bound and determined to get your real address, they will.
Having said that, my experience using my own domain based on gmail for at least 5 years, thanks to listening to @Leo, is I do not get a noticeable amount of spam emails to my domain email addresses, though I do get all the really nasty stuff to my 25 year old yahoo address.
@Kasra, I have a domain based address I use only for banks and finances, and it has worked well all these years. Also, I find it easier to give out my domain address because it is spelled the way it sounds. All depends on what you choose. As for spammers, if they get your address off a hacked list, doesn’t matter what you use.
I think a lot of us have been using email for so long, and trying to avoid spam and maintain privacy, that we have created way too many addresses. In the “good old days” when you changed ISP, you lost access to your address, and you had to contact everyone who had it with the change. Webmail and free email service changed that, so we started being clever, making up multiple addresses. And, in my case, it got beyond where I could keep track of it. I would love to get rid of my original free addresses, but the pain of contacting all those using it would be outrageous. So, I consolidated all of them by forwarding all the addresses to the gmail “base” account. Truth is, I still find myself sending from those old addresses. But, I can go to my gmail webpage or app, type in some keyword in search, and find emails from any account back 5 years. And, if I behave and use gmail to send from, I can pick any of my “well defined” domain names to send from, like the maccas@mydomain.com account I created specifically to create a Macdonald’s account for their app to get my free cappuccino back in the days when we used to be able to actually go out and get a coffee. And, if spammers get that address, I will delete it, create a new one, and maybe be able to enjoy that coffee in peace again one day.
And yes @Leo, a great Ask the Tech Guy subject. Good luck explaining how to set up gmail “Send As’” and forwarding in a 10 minute segment. I can honestly say I spend several hours on multiple days trying to work out these two forms;
I guess so
But weirdly I’m getting some ad emails ( before I purchased my domain) when i check “To” it is written like “myname@gmail.com (my email doesn’t contain my name anywhere in email address or name)
Not sure how they manage to fake “To” box to show that like this
For example if
My email is hello@gmail and put a b for my name
This email is to myname @ gmail somehow
There are tools that allow you to query the dns records like dig or nslookup. That can be used to see if a domain resolves to anything.
Then if you want you can register the domain.
I’m really impressed by the quality of the careful, detailed explanations that posters have been providing. Demonstrates the value of this community.
Hello everyone once again it’s me
So i have a couple of days to renew my domain
I was thinking of changing my domain name
But have a couple of concerns
Im using google domains and gmail email forwarding and it works fine
But i wonder if i change my domain
1-What would happen to my previous emails sent to the old domain that will be canceled
2- is there any way to reroute new emails that go to the old domain to be automatically sent to the new inbox?
3- what if i used the email to create an account somewhere
Doe it worsth trying to have a new domain
Thank you
