When emailing a contact, the FROM address defaults to the address of the currently logged-in HL user, when it SHOULD default to the email address specified in Settings > Email Services for the account
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Victor Elkins
When emailing a contact via the HL UI, the FROM email address should always default to the email address specified in that account's Setting > Email Services configuration. Failing to do so is irrational, as defaulting to sending FROM the email address assigned to the currently logged-in user means SMTP authentication will fail, except in rare instances where it just so happens the currently logged-in user has the exact same email address as the one specified in Settings > Email Services. This is particularly egregious when one has an Agency with many subaccounts, all of whom are for different users. Example: Say my name is Bob Smith, email bob@smith.com, and I log into my account as an Agency admin. I have subaccounts for different staff members: Jim Johnson, jim@johnson.com, and Kevin Nations, kevin@nations.com. Each one of these users wants to communicate with their contacts using their own email address, so SMTP auth for each account is of course set up to use their respective email address (and, of course, their address will be used 95% of the time, since they will be the ones using the account). Because HL is configured illogically in-regards contact email FROM settings, every time I go to a specific subaccount, and attempt to send a contact an email, HL defaults to sending from bob@smith.com, my email, instead of jim@johnson.com, the email configured in Settings > Email Services.. So every single email I send to a contact on Jim Johnson's account, I have to edit the FROM field every single time. And every other user has to do the exact same thing any time they access any other subaccount that isn't their own.
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Sonny Jones
This is a pretty surprising mistake that needs corrected.
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Eddy CEO WhatSnap.ai - Connect YOUR phone to GHL
Running into this constantly. Every time we access a client's subaccount to help with something, we have to manually change the FROM field or the email bounces. Basic workflow stuff that shouldn't require extra steps.
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Reinhardt Gallowitz
There are MULTIPLE posts open on this exact type of request - Core Platform why isn't this being implemented yet?
I don't want my staff to be sending emails from their personal log in emails, so they're forced to type in the email? This should be a no brainer.
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JOHN DENLEY
DITTO!
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Alan H
This needs to happen, also with the new Conversations UI update, replying to an email uses your account name automatically with no way to change it. if its going to be automatic with no option to change name at least use the name previously used in the email thread.
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Nolan Bell
come on guys like how is there no way to do this in 2025
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Harry Gilliam
YES! Why hasn't this obvious fix been done?
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Jeff Armstrong
Yeah, this is one that seems like it should be easy. Just set a "default email for account" box that overrides the user that's logged in. AT LEAST for the agency owner.
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Jonathan Killam
Clients are confused as to where the email will actually show as sent from. Based on the conversation tabs from field, they are concerned that the email is coming from their login email instead of their dedicated domain. PLEASE FIX THIS!!!!
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Ricardo Gómez
Same here. I haved reported this more than a year ago. If we choose to use mailgun not sense my login email address is my address for response in any conversation. There is not reason to keep this waiting anymore
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