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  1. Scenario:
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  3. * I have a Google Account (not GMail) registered as foo@myisp.com.
  4. * I want to change to GMail as my email provider, dropping foo@myisp.com
  5. * I don't want to create a new Google Account, as I would have to start over on YouTube, Google Reader, Google Code, Google Docs, etc.
  6. * I want to keep the GMail account attached to the existing Google Account so Google Docs, Google Buzz, etc are properly integrated.
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  9. What's happened:
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  11. - Create a Google Account as foo@myisp.com
  12. - Create a GMail Account as foo@gmail.com, attached to the Google Account
  13. - Send an email from GMail:
  14. * GMail will arrive with unwanted "From:" of foo@myisp.com - no mention of foo@gmail.com
  15. - Add foo@gmail.com as an alternate Sender on the gmail.com account and send mail
  16. * GMail will arrive "From:" foo@gmail.com, but unwanted "Sender:" of foo@myisp.com
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  18. I can't find a way to nuke the unwanted foo@myisp.com completely. This will result in some people responding to the wrong address, which may belong to someone else in the future.
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  21. Some things I have tried:
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  23. * The non-GMail address can't be removed from the alternate sender settings
  24. * Removing foo@myisp.com from the Google Account and only leaving foo@gmail.com still leaves foo@myisp.com in place in GMail.
  25. * On deleting GMail from the account, I can't set foo@gmail.com as the account address in advance of re-creating that GMail account.
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  28. To get the reward, be the first to Tweet to @Soft with a solution that:
  29. * Works completely within GMail
  30. * Doesn't rely on extra servers - ie, no telling GMail to send through a third-party smtp server
  31. * Eliminates any reference to foo@myisp.com in GMail and Google Account both
  32. * Doesn't introduce any address other than foo@gmail.com
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  35. Test this before sending a solution, and make sure you understand the difference between Google Account and GMail. This sounds like something that should be really trivial. But it's not.
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