How To Remove The ‘Sent From Mail For Windows 10’ Text
Last Updated on March 10, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment
The other day, one of my friends called me up and asked why I add Sent from Mail for Windows 10 tagline at the end of each email message. My friend was curious to know if I was promoting the Mail app as well as Windows 10.
Every time you send or replay to an email message using the Mail app in Windows 10, it automatically adds a small signature link “Sent from Mail for Windows 10” at the end of your email to let the person reading your email message know that you used the Mail app in Windows 10 to compose or replay to the email.
And it’s not just Windows 10 or Mail app that automatically adds “Sent from” signature line at the end of emails. Even Apple’s iPhone adds, “Sent from my iPhone” message by default, for instance.
Most PC users are not aware that the Mail app adds a signature message at the end of emails although the Mail app shows Sent from Mail for Windows 10 even while composing a new email so that users can delete the text if they don’t want to add the default signature to the email.
The other problem is that the Mail app doesn’t sync your webmail signature. This means, for instance, if you have set up a signature for your Outlook.com email account in the web interface, the Mail app won’t use or sync the same signature while sending emails. If you want the Mail app to use that signature, you need to customize the Mail app signature be following given below directions.
If you don’t want the Mail app to add Sent from Mail for Windows 10 text to each and every email or wish to replace the default email signature with a custom one, you can do so under Mail app settings.
Remove sent from Mail for Windows 10 from Mail
Here is how to remove Sent from Mail for Windows 10 or customize the signature to add your name in Windows 10 Mail.
Step 1: Open the Mail app.
Step 2: Click on the Settings (gear icon) to open Settings pane.
Step 3: Click Signature to settings and options for Signature.
Step 4: Finally, select an email account from the drop-down box and then turn off the option labeled Use an email signature to stop the Mail app from adding Sent from Mail for Windows 10 message to your emails.
If you have added two or more email accounts to the Mail app, select the Apply to all accounts option to apply the change to all accounts.
As you can see in the picture below, you can customize the Sent from Mail for Windows 10 message by adding your name or company name.
How to reinstall the Mail app in Windows 10 guide might also be of interest to you.
How to change ‘Sent from Mail for Windows 10’ for custom signature on Mail app
You can change the default signature message on the Mail app or remove signature completely — Here’s how to do it.
You’ve probably noticed the “Sent from Mail for Windows 10” text every time you compose a new email with the Windows 10 Mail app. This is actually the default signature configured on the app, because most users won’t remove or change it right away, Mail uses this signature to promote itself.
And it’s not just the Mail app, the Outlook app for your phone adds the “Get Outlook for Android”, and Apple uses “Sent from my iPhone” — just to name a few examples.
If you want to use your own signature or remove it completely, it’s possible to create or disable signature on the Mail app for Windows 10. You can do this for each account or you can apply the new settings to all account configured on your computer.
In this guide, you’ll learn the steps to change the “Sent from Mail for Windows 10” signature for a custom signature or remove signature completely on the Mail app for Windows 10.
How to create a new signature on the Mail app
In order to remove the “Sent from Mail for Windows 10” signature, create a custom signature, or disable the feature on the built-in Mail app, use these steps:
Open the Mail app.
Click the gear button in the bottom-left to open the Settings page.
Mail app on Windows 10 left pane
Click the Signature option.
Mail app for Windows 10 settings
Select the account you want to change signature from or check the Apply to all accounts option.
Create your custom signature message using text, emojis, images, or links.
Mail app custom signature editor on Windows 10
Once you completed the steps, every time you compose a new email or reply to a message only the new message will appear in the signature area.
If you want to remove “Sent from Mail for Windows 10” completely, you can turn off the Use an email signature toggle switch.
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How do I change the «From» Address in the Windows 10 Mail app?
I want to send an email via the Windows 10 Mail app as *** Email address is removed for privacy ***,
rather than sending it as *** Email address is removed for privacy *** or *** Email address is removed for privacy ***, but it won’t give me any options to do so.
I’ve searched around, but I’ve yet to find a solution. Am I missing something obvious?
Hope someone can help!
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Thank you for being a part of Windows 10.
I appreciate you for providing details about the issue and we are glad to assist you.
I suggest you configure the Mail app by adding the account of your choice and check if it helps.
Refer to the following Microsoft article on Set up Mail and add contacts.
Note: The steps for Windows 8.1 applies to Windows 10.
Reference: Refer to the following Microsoft article on Windows 10 help & how-to.
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(Sorry — didn’t realise the forums would censor my examples!)
I wish to send emails from an alias address, different than my Gmail or Microsoft accounts,
but I can’t figure out how to enter that new address into Windows 10 Mail’s «From» field.
The email address I want to use as an alias is forwarded, so I can’t set up POP or IMAP.
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Same Here. I actually created new ‘aliases’; but in Gmail which lets you set up several independent ‘addresses’ so W10-Mail can set them up as different ‘accounts’ within a linked inbox. Voila, 4 ‘aliases’ within my ‘inbox’ any of which can be selected when clicking ‘New Mail’. (An automatic dropdown to choose which account the mail is coming from.) — Obviously this will not work for people with established aliases. I was ‘fortunate’ I hadn’t been using aliases for long so there was little cost to the change. (And, hypothetically, any email to the old aliases should still get to my primary Outlook account.)
But that we have to jump through this many hoops to get W10-MS-Apps to work as well as W8-MS-Apps is utterly ridiculous. Their Mail-aliases backstep is only surpassed by their OneDrive Dis-Integration (where there are also inelegant inadequate change-how-you-work work-arounds), and their truly bizarre inability to cut-and-paste from/to Edge/Mail/etc.
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So I just recently decided to join the Win10 wagon and have finally finished setting up and synchronizing my accounts. Was also wondering where the drop-down button for account/aliases went. but after going through this thread, I suppose this issue with the Win10 Mail app has yet to be resolved?
I have a Gmail work account and an Outlook personal account, all managed through my Outlook account using the Win10 Mail app. Since Win8, I have set my work address as the primary From address (seeing as email traffic is heavier there) and had no trouble switching around, but this time with the Win10 Mail app I was unable to locate that drop-down button and I find this to be unnecessarily frustrating as I am therefore required to go and open my account via browser just so I could switch From addresses. This problem is also ever present within the Win10 Phone Mail app, sigh.
Any idea on whether or not Microsoft is doing anything about this? Or is the Win10 Mail app meant to be mega basic as opposed to the Ms Outlook 2016 program? I mean, the Win10 Mail app goes as far as allowing you to play around with text format and everything (except for formatting your signature, which. c’mon now?), so I suppose Microsoft should also give us that drop-down button back.