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> Only problem is that email replies will originate from the new personal addresses.

You can configure a regular gmail account to send from the custom domain. Visit:

Settings -> Accounts and Import -> Send mail as

You'll have to confirm ownership of the alternate email address, but it works fine. Even if the alternate email address is associated with a Gsuite domain.

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I've looked previously, but it requested SMTP address + username/password. I wouldn't have those because that custom domain email address will be forwarded (receiving only - not send). Am I missing something here?

As long as your spf record allows Google to send mail, you can.

You need to setup an "App password" on your Google account. Then, when you create an alias, you enter smtp.gmail.com and your app password credential as the smtp server.

Here: https://support.google.com/domains/answer/9437157?hl=en

One problem I have found with this is that the iOS mail app does not have a provision for sending email through a different SMTP server. Has anyone seen a workaround for that? If you send a reply from iOS, even if you have configured the custom-domain email address as an alias on the account, recipients still see "on behalf of ..."

This does have the disadvantage of rendering as "foo123@gmail.com on behalf of foo@customdomain.com" in gmail itself.

If you see my response above, the method I use removes that annoying caveat. Outbound emails are signed and validated using the custom domain through AWS SES and you don’t get “behalf of” label.

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