The service now goes beyond integration with Gmail and into a custom SMTP server.

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Other options include your SMTP server (the outgoing mail server) which you know about if you need it.

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Those who rely on email aliases will also like that Microsoft has finally let us choose an SMTP server to send messages from non-Outlook addresses without revealing the true source -- we won't have to put up with "on behalf of" tags any longer.

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