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# Mail from two addresses looks the same

> Why messages sent from different addresses can arrive under one name, and where in Gmail to change it.

You ask Claude to send one message from `support@` and another from
`contracts@`. Both go out from the right address, and both arrive looking like
this:

```
Your Name <support@yourdomain.com>
Your Name <contracts@yourdomain.com>
```

The addresses are different. The name is not, so at a glance the two are
indistinguishable.

## Why

Gmail stores a display name **for each sending address**, and nothing makes them
different from one another. When you attach a domain to a Gmail account, each
address you add starts out carrying the name already on the account. Unless you
have changed one since, they all say the same thing.

That is what a recipient sees first. The address is in there, but it is the name
their mail app puts in bold.

## Change it in Gmail

The name lives in Gmail's settings, not in the hub, so this is where you set it.
You need a computer; the mobile app has no screen for it.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the settings">
    In Gmail, click the gear icon, then **See all settings**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Go to Accounts">
    Open the **Accounts and Import** tab. On some accounts it is labelled just
    **Accounts**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Find the address">
    Under **Send mail as**, each address you can send from is listed. Click
    **edit info** beside the one you want to change.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Set the name and save">
    Enter the name you want recipients to see, then **Save changes**.
  </Step>
</Steps>

Google's own instructions:
[Change the name on your Gmail account](https://support.google.com/mail/answer/8158)
and [Send emails from a different address or alias](https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370).

<Warning>
  **Do this once for every address you send from.** Changing one leaves the rest
  exactly as they were, which is easy to miss when the whole reason you looked
  was that they all matched.
</Warning>

## Afterwards

The hub asks Google what a given address is called every time it sends, so there
is nothing on this side to refresh, restart, or wait for. Send a message to
yourself and look at what arrives.

If it still shows the old name, the change has not taken effect at Google yet
rather than being held anywhere here.

## What you cannot do

Gmail allows **one name per address**. The same address cannot send as one name
today and another tomorrow. If you need two names, they need two addresses.

## Next

* [Troubleshooting](/troubleshooting), for the rest of what can go wrong with
  sending
* [Release notes](/release-notes), for how choosing an address arrived