I am having a gsuite account that has approx 9 clients with different email accounts for their firm. I want to change the respective logo of the client for their emails.
For example if a client is of abc company, I want to upload logo of abc for their emails and if a client is of xyz company, I want to upload logo of xyz for their emails. But if I change the logo of one client, it applies to all the clients in my gsuite account.
Only one logo can be uploaded per GSuite account - see this Help Center article stating
You can specify only one logo for your domains. The same logo appears for users in all domains that are part of your account.
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Websites will often send notification emails from addresses like hello#example.com or no-reply#example.com. When these show up in Gmail / Inbox, they often have a name and an avatar associated, like this one from Zeplin:
I know if you're using Google Apps, as an administrator you could create a user called no-reply and set their avatar. But this also uses up one user slot which costs $5 / month. And I'm not sure if this technique works outside of Gmail or Inbox.
Are there other ways to set the avatar for automated email addresses?
Have a look at Gravatar.
What Is Gravatar?
An "avatar" is an image that represents you online—a little picture
that appears next to your name when you interact with websites.
A Gravatar is a Globally Recognized Avatar. You upload it and create
your profile just once, and then when you participate in any
Gravatar-enabled site, your Gravatar image will automatically follow
you there.
More info here:
https://en.gravatar.com/
This is the result for the email above.
A catch all email address allows you can receive the Gravatar activation emails for non existent email addresses.
Details for Google Apps:
Google Admin console
From the dashboard, click Apps, then click G Suite
Gmail
User settings.
Catch-all address section
TL;DR Get a verified Google+ Brand Page and enable DKIM authentication for any external service you send email through (ala Mailchimp).
These steps are not documented and Google themselves did not help. But, after implementing them, my business avatar started to appear for emails sent via Mailchimp or Mandrill or some such with a return email address of my domain.
1) Create a Google+ Brand Account page (https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1710600). You may already have one set up as part of general SEO, but you need one for the avatar to work. Make sure too, at the end of the process (which is again, is poorly documented) that on your Google+ brand page, you see the little verified badge next to your business name.
2) Set the avatar you want on your brand page.
3) From whatever external service you send email from, set up DKIM authentication for your domain. Google Inbox won't display an avatar if it detects the email as being sent 'on behalf' of your domain; the DKIM authentication will make Inbox believe your domain actually sent it, and then apply the avatar. (These instructions vary wildly depending on your email provider, but here are the ones for Mailchimp).
Go to https://myaccount.google.com/email
Click on "Advanced Settings" then on "Alternate Email".
Verify emails.
UPDATE: closing and moving to https://superuser.com/q/1491110/129302
I am asking this on Stackoverflow because I honestly have no idea about the actual implementation , so depending on answer, I will move it later.
The question is: why email client, for example, Windows Mail, displays icons (sender pictures) from several companies.
As you can see, Microsoft, Tubmlr, Paypal provides pictures.
As well as Godaddy, Amazon, Github, Quora, Medium, Meetup and others.
But the majority of business senders has no sender pictures.
How sender pictures are implemented?
What I've tried already:
Let's pretend, I own hello#example.com
Added hello#example.com to Gravatar and uploaded custom icon.
Created Google Account for hello#example.com and changed account picture.
Added favicon.ico to example.com
Added webmanifest with multiple icon sizes to example.com
Tried multiple link tags in / of example.com
Configured DNS server to include all required records (SPF/TXT/DMARC/DKIM) for BIMI.
No luck yet. Are they hardcoded in email client?
That would be strange, because why Quora is hardcoded in, while Yahoo is not, so I may reject this theory.
I have also noticed, that sender picture depends on the full email address: there is a picture in email from no-reply-aws#amazon.com, but there is no in email from aws-marketing-email-replies#amazon.com
How it is done?
Websites will often send notification emails from addresses like hello#example.com or no-reply#example.com. When these show up in Gmail / Inbox, they often have a name and an avatar associated, like this one from Zeplin:
I know if you're using Google Apps, as an administrator you could create a user called no-reply and set their avatar. But this also uses up one user slot which costs $5 / month. And I'm not sure if this technique works outside of Gmail or Inbox.
Are there other ways to set the avatar for automated email addresses?
Have a look at Gravatar.
What Is Gravatar?
An "avatar" is an image that represents you online—a little picture
that appears next to your name when you interact with websites.
A Gravatar is a Globally Recognized Avatar. You upload it and create
your profile just once, and then when you participate in any
Gravatar-enabled site, your Gravatar image will automatically follow
you there.
More info here:
https://en.gravatar.com/
This is the result for the email above.
A catch all email address allows you can receive the Gravatar activation emails for non existent email addresses.
Details for Google Apps:
Google Admin console
From the dashboard, click Apps, then click G Suite
Gmail
User settings.
Catch-all address section
TL;DR Get a verified Google+ Brand Page and enable DKIM authentication for any external service you send email through (ala Mailchimp).
These steps are not documented and Google themselves did not help. But, after implementing them, my business avatar started to appear for emails sent via Mailchimp or Mandrill or some such with a return email address of my domain.
1) Create a Google+ Brand Account page (https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1710600). You may already have one set up as part of general SEO, but you need one for the avatar to work. Make sure too, at the end of the process (which is again, is poorly documented) that on your Google+ brand page, you see the little verified badge next to your business name.
2) Set the avatar you want on your brand page.
3) From whatever external service you send email from, set up DKIM authentication for your domain. Google Inbox won't display an avatar if it detects the email as being sent 'on behalf' of your domain; the DKIM authentication will make Inbox believe your domain actually sent it, and then apply the avatar. (These instructions vary wildly depending on your email provider, but here are the ones for Mailchimp).
Go to https://myaccount.google.com/email
Click on "Advanced Settings" then on "Alternate Email".
Verify emails.
I'd like for all emails send from my server (e.g. mail#example.com) to arrive in recipients inboxes with a custom sender image used in Apple Mail and Google Inbox.
I have created a new Google+ account, linked and verified my website (by uploading the .html file, you know ;]), but still, the emails don't contain my Google + profile image as their sender image.
I assume it's something to do with me not sending emails from the new gmail address I've created with Google+. I'm hoping someone knows how to work around this and have Google+ treat any emails coming from my domain as the new Google+ account's own.
This Article seems to provide a good overall answer. I'll do a quick summary here.
As a takeaway:
Ensure your site is verified on Google+. This is done in Webmaster tools(link), and your webmaster must approve.
Ensure you have adequate email traffic (seems around 1k a week should do it).
When sending from a domain not matching Google+, you'll need to include a snippet of code in your email, and have Gmail approve the link.
Ensure that your email is authenticated against your domain and not your ESPs (or use the Featured Image markup).
I want to know if it's possible to have a Google Apps for Businesses account with say 2 emails "hosted" there and also have 3 other emails accounts on my mail server. So can I set up the MX Records to "redirect" emails to the Google server first (highest priority MX records), if it doesn't find the destination email there, have it "send" to my regular mail server?
This way I can have 2 email accounts with all the "benefits" on Google Apps and 3 other not so important ones (like contact#, financial# etc) on my regular email server, managed from my cPanel interface.
Thanks
To anyone seeing this post, I'll answer my own question: yes it's possible. You need to set up "Split delivery" in your Google Apps account. More about this here: http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=173534