Cannot set Custom Sender email using PHPMailer and smtp.gmail.com - php

Question

I am using PHPMailer and smtp.gmail.com to send emails to my users.
Emails are sent, no problem with that, but on the client side, in the sender email address, there is showing my servers host email address, not my email address that is set with PHPMailer->SetFrom(). I want to set my email address as sender email.
I'm using php 5.4 & PHPMailer 5.2.4
My code is given below :
<?php
require_once('class.phpmailer.php');
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
try {
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->Username = "myemail#gmail.com";
$mail->Password = "PASSWORD";
$mail->AddAddress('receiver#email.com', 'John Doe');
$mail->SetFrom('myemail#email.com', 'My Name');
$mail->addReplyTo('myemail#gmail.com', 'My Name');
$mail->Subject = 'PHPMailer Subject';
$mail->MsgHTML('This is the body');
$mail->Send();
echo "Message Sent";
} catch (phpmailerException $e) {
echo $e->errorMessage();
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo $e->getMessage();
}
?>

Answer 1

This is a gmail limitation - it does not let you set arbitrary from addresses, though you can set fixed aliases in your gmail preferences. This is covered in the PHPMailer documentation. It's also a reasonable restriction - otherwise you're probably forging the from address. You can always set a reply-to address if it's reply routing you're concerned about.