Comments on: my iPhone gmail push work around…thanks ymail!

By: MrPotStirer

MrPotStirer — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:40:28 +0000

I have a 3GS Iphone and followed your instructions. I took my first gmail address and setup my filter. The filter included gmail1 OR gmail2 OR Firstemail @gmail.com. I then forwarded it to a ymail account. I also goto my other gmail accounts I setup and forward it to my main account that contains the filter. When I send something from an outside account to one of these I get the email in ymail. When I go to the Iphone and click on the email and CC/BCC and it everything appears, but the From field.

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:53:24 +0000

Hi there, I’ve created the filters as you have instructed above but I don’t know why it doesn’t work. I’m not sure what I have done or not done correctly. But when I set up my gmail to forward all incoming emails to my ymail account, it does work. But I also get the same emails in my gmail account (not as unread). Please help. Do I need to reset something in the forward settings? Or do I simply do as you have instructed above (but it doesn’t do push emails to my ymail). Would appreciate your help. thanks.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:24:12 +0000

you are the man!!!!!!

this worked perfectly.

Also.. as an FYI for anyone in Canada who uses Rogers as your ISP… Rogers and Yahoo are partnered so if you have an @rogers.com email address as I do, you can just use that account to forward all your gmail to as it works with PUSH. Just choose the Yahoo option when creating a new email account on the iphone but put in your rogers email address.

By: John

John — Fri, 29 May 2009 03:30:29 +0000

This is an amazing find! I love this to get around the 20 cent per message texting that horrible AT&T charges. I tell my friends to text my gmail, which forwards now to my push Yahoo. This way I get it, but can reply from my gmail. Lovely! Thanks

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:40:49 +0000

Harry, I tried to do exactly what you are saying for a couple days and then gave up. If you figure it out please let us know!

By: Harry

Harry — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:34:03 +0000

Guys, there should be a way to add the yahoo mail account under other, t.e manually set it up, then under outgoing server write down the smtp for google mail.. I´ve been trying this, but having problams getting the settings for the yahoo incoming mail server correct.
This would actually be the perfect gmail push workaround, without the yahoo smtp at all..

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:35:16 +0000

I had the same issue as patrick, just set this up for the first time..
Have switched it to a filter rather than forwarding all, we’ll see what happens!

Currently using NuevaSync to sync all contacts and calendars to Gmail – says they’ll soon support push email, can’t wait!

(For extra geekiness, I have a second calendar setup on gmail which links to a Dopplr account. Because of the OTA sync any event which has a location created in my Travel calendar automatically updates Dopplr with my travel plans

By: dizzy

dizzy — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:52:45 +0000

Patrick, are you still having this issue? I have yet to see this happen. I do get some message that match my forwarding filter that go to the spam box, but those are never delivered to ymail. Maybe it has to do with the fact that everything is being forwarded. You should try setting a filter to forward anything sent to your email in the TO: field filter. This will basically forward everything, but will be done with a filter instead of the general forward which should occur after the spam check. Let us know how it works out for you.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:11:19 +0000

I have been using a yahoo account to push my gmail to my iphone for a couple of months and it has been great. However, two days ago, i started receiving all of the spam from my gmail account on my iphone. this was not a problem before and i have not changed any of my settings. I have gmail set up to send all email to yahoo becasue I don’t want to miss anything. Why did the spam filter stop working? The spam is in my spam folder when i log in to gmail. any ideas?

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:14:58 +0000

You can avoid the duplication and still have the option to send from your gmail account. First, delete the Gmail account you have in the iPhone mail client. Then set up a new one, but rather than choosing ‘Gmail’ when you’re setting up, choose ‘Other’ and manually enter the servers, etc. When you enter the incoming server (imap.gmail.com) just put a different username/password in for it, so it will bring in mail from, say, a dummy gmail account that you set up. Then enter the username/password for the gmail account you want to be able to send from in the outgoing server (smtp.gmail.com). Obviously, you won’t be using the same username/password for both the incoming and outgoing. Voila!