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Push Gmail workaround guide
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Yes, actually you can. You have the option of using your domain but don't have to. Or at least that's how I understood the sales guy when they tried to convert a business I did work for.
This place actually gets good reviews if you did want to use your own domain and have push: https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html. It looks like even the free account would work.
All is good with push email but I cannot figure out why everytime I reply to an email it's outlook that is the outgoing email ?. Many ppl are not receiving my emails due to it not being my gmail email account.
Did I miss a step or screw something up ?.
Thanks
JP
Did I miss a step or screw something up ?.
Thanks
JP
Just out of curiosity, if you're going to change email addresses/providers, why not use iCloud?
For me, my place of employment blocks all POP and IMAP access through their wifi network, so either I have to live off cellular all day or find a workaround - and it just so happens that ActiveSync/Exchange is not blocked (so using iCloud for email is a no-go for me). But for you it might be ok.
I had it to forward my gmail email to my icloud account. It worked flawlessly for about 2 weeks. Yesterday, my contacts started to ask me if I had changed my email address. Some even started to email my directly to the icloud account.
It seems as if iCloud just decided to ignore the SMTP settings and select the default one (even though it was off).
So I just created a new Outlook account and followed this guide and everything is working smoothly. The emails I send from my iPad appears as if I have sent them using the gmail email even though it's going through the outlook account.
Thanks for the guide.
The only thing I'm still deciding is how to handle email on my mac. Right now, the emails on the gmail account appears as read but they obviously don't sync if I delete something on the iPad.
I tried setting the outlook account on the mac and it worked, I'm just debating about using the gmail one as a dump and just manage and keep the important email on the outlook account.
I don't want to change my email address because in my country we speak spanish and more than one time I have had a problem when saying that my email address is xxx@icloud.com or @me.com. Everyone pretty much knows how gmail is written, it's like the standard email service over here.
Anyway, how are you managing mail in your mac after forwarding it to another email provider? I think that setting the outlook (in my case) account also on my mac might be the best idea... does anyone has a better idea?
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You need to set the gmail one as the default in outlook. I also was missing this. Steps 2 and 3 of the first post.
It seems as if iCloud just decided to ignore the SMTP settings and select the default one (even though it was off).
So I just created a new Outlook account and followed this guide and everything is working smoothly. The emails I send from my iPad appears as if I have sent them using the gmail email even though it's going through the outlook account.
Thanks for the guide.
The only thing I'm still deciding is how to handle email on my mac. Right now, the emails on the gmail account appears as read but they obviously don't sync if I delete something on the iPad.
I tried setting the outlook account on the mac and it worked, I'm just debating about using the gmail one as a dump and just manage and keep the important email on the outlook account.
I don't want to change my email address because in my country we speak spanish and more than one time I have had a problem when saying that my email address is xxx@icloud.com or @me.com. Everyone pretty much knows how gmail is written, it's like the standard email service over here.
Anyway, how are you managing mail in your mac after forwarding it to another email provider? I think that setting the outlook (in my case) account also on my mac might be the best idea... does anyone has a better idea?
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You need to set the gmail one as the default in outlook. I also was missing this. Steps 2 and 3 of the first post.
Not sure what I did now but all of new gmail emails are showing up as read ?. No more push either :-(
Try going through all the steps again.
The one thing I didn't do was to set a filter to store the gmail mail. Since I will only forward one account I didn't considered necessary to do it.
Basically, I did this..
Now that I remember, I changed the port to 587 from 465.
Also, if you are using 2-step verification with your gmail account you need to create a specific password to use with this configuration.
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Maybe this helps you and other.
The first step is to forward the mail from Gmail to Outlook. They will send a verification mail to Outlook and when confirmed the mail will start to forward to Outlook.
Then, in Outlook you need to:
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You get the Advanced Options when adding the Send Only Account by pressing the Advanced Options link.
Then you configure the Outlook account in your iOS device.
It worked for me, worked flawlessly throughout the day. I'm still debating how to handle this in my mac.
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That's not what happened at all. Google decided to stop paying licensing fees to use a certain service, and then provided a free app to iOS users that performs said task. How dare they, right? Terrible, terrible google for giving you free things.
Gmail stopped forwarding all emails?!?
So I have the outlook.com workaround in place, it was humming along fine and then yesterday it didn't forward all my messages. It sent some, but there were others that were completely missing, even some from the same conversation.
Anyone else experiencing this? I turned off forwarding and re-enabled in hopes that would clean any issues.
So I have the outlook.com workaround in place, it was humming along fine and then yesterday it didn't forward all my messages. It sent some, but there were others that were completely missing, even some from the same conversation.
Anyone else experiencing this? I turned off forwarding and re-enabled in hopes that would clean any issues.
Mine hasn't stopped forwarding, but I noticed not all my emails are being forwarded. I checked my outlook Spam box and it's not there either.
This completely ignores the entire point of this thread. Why not just use GMail instead of mailbox then? The point of this thread was to push email to the MAIL app, not use a second app.
Several of us have reported this. For me it seemed not to forward emails sent from gmail addresses. It never fixed itself so I had to stop using outlook and switched to just the regular iOS gmail app.
Has anyone set-up iCloud as a comparison? I started a support thread on Google here http://goo.gl/Xw8KkC and they suggested it was an outlook.com error, not a Google issue. Somehow I doubt that.
Has anyone with an iCloud forward set-up had similar dropped Gmail issues?
I just switched my forwarding from Outlook to iCloud. I haven't tested it for very long, but it looks like I am getting emails (forwarded from my Gmail account). I wasn't getting it on Outlook.
One thing I noticed with iCloud is that when I read an email on my iPad, it doesn't mark the email as read on my iPhone and vice versa.
I have a weird situation going on, I made two different outlook accounts for two separate emails (I know I could have done inboxes for different emails but I like it cleaner this way).
Well, for ONLY one of the outlook emails I keep getting duplicates of emails being forwarded from my GMAIL account. It is so weird, the settings are the exact same for the other Outlook account that works perfectly.
Also for some reason this one bad Outlook email sometimes lags the email showing up on my phone.
I noticed that this option in BOTH of the emails was disabled on outlook. Have anything to do with it?
Under settings > Connect devices and apps with POP: Enable/Disable > and it is disabled...
Well, for ONLY one of the outlook emails I keep getting duplicates of emails being forwarded from my GMAIL account. It is so weird, the settings are the exact same for the other Outlook account that works perfectly.
Also for some reason this one bad Outlook email sometimes lags the email showing up on my phone.
I noticed that this option in BOTH of the emails was disabled on outlook. Have anything to do with it?
Under settings > Connect devices and apps with POP: Enable/Disable > and it is disabled...
A little off topic but still dealing with gmail. I lost push obviously but still want to set it up as exchange. The way I understood it, it should still work just using fetch. I can't get that at all and get The connection to the server failed. Anyone else dealing with this and is there a workaround or do I just need to select Gmail when setting up the account?
Is your iCloud setup on your phone able to reply via your gmail address within the mail app? I enabled iCloud but can't get the SMTP setting correct. If yours works, can you share your iCloud setup?
There is no way to set up a reply to your Gmail address. I set up my Gmail address as "Gmail" on the phone (not exchange) to manual fetch. I receive email on my iCloud account. When I reply, I click on the pull down menu "from" and manually change it from my iCloud account to my Gmail account.
It's a pain and I wish there is a better option.
Gotcha, thanks. Outlook will let you change the SMTP server so you can reply within the mail app and it comes from your gmail account. If they could just fix why some emails aren't coming through, it would be a pretty good solution.