> Yes, you can do it.  I do it and support it for users, like this:
> We have a domain which is hosted on Office365 (or whatever).  The MX record 
> points to o365.  Create a user account (or whatever) and forward it to 
> [email protected].  Now, obviously, Joe can receive his company email at gmail, 
> but the problem is sending mail.  By default, if you just add a "send from" 
> account to a gmail, then you have the problem you described.  "From 
> [email protected] On Behalf Of [email protected]"
> 
> The solution is to add the "Send As" address to gmail, but use the external 
> SMTP option.  This way, Joe reads his email on gmail, and when he sends mail, 
> gmail just acts like any other SMTP client, and sends the mail out through 
> o365 SMTP servers.  Now it truly *is* seamless.  Except obviously, the lack 
> of support for the company addressbook, company calendar, OOF messages, 
> rules, spam filter, etc. 

Misses the point if you have to run your own mail server, and that mail server 
being offline breaks e-mail flow.  

-- 
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : net philanthropy to improve open source and internet projects.



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