how to use Gmail Filtering to "sync/push" to your blackberry
I have discovered that using the Gmail filter to foward mail to your
BlackBerry works like a Charm! Most importantly it gives you push
Gmail on your BB and keeps your mail insync with your Gmail account.
Here's how it works:
A. Use the Gmail filter to foward msgs written
to:urn...@regularaddress.com or urn...@Gmail.com to your
@tmo.blackberry.net.
B. To have your sent mail written from your BB to copy to your Gmail.
On the Blackberry Web Client, BCC:urn...@Gmail.com. As you have set
the filter, it only to fowards mail written to:, not the bcc: you
won't get your sent mail coming back to your BB.
Three problems occur when you use Gmail's forwarding not the filter
forwarding.
1. it also fowards the SPAM. Most SPAM that arrives on Gmail isn't
written to: your address. SPAM as we know, can be annoying on the BB.
2. If you want to store your sent mail on Gmail, the sent mail comes
back to you.
3. Gmail's mail forwarding is smart, so if for some reason it can't
reach the address it's fowarding to. It stops sending mail to that
address.
account and use the Gmail filter to forward the mail to those addresses
to your BB. Using the filter also avoids the three problems listed
above.
~BlackBelt
"Gmail is to Email what the iPod is to music" ~ blackbelt
posted by BlackBerry BlackBelt @ 6:15 PM
7 Comments:
Excellent Tip!!! I've been trying to get my gmail on my blackberry to do that so I can leave copies on Gmail for searching and archiving later.
Thanks my friend,
BlackBerry YellowBelt
On my BB7100t w/BWC, I just did an 'add account' for my gmail account...and it worked.
So, I guess they recognize that gmail.com uses non-standard ports and SSL for its POP3 access.
You can actually keep the spam (at least the messages that Gmail thinks are spam) away also. Just add "in:spam" to the "Doesn't Contain:" field in the filter. Despite all indications to the contrary (including the error message that follows, which you should ignore) this will keep spam from being forwarded.
I have multiple emails forward to my gmail account. The filter doesn't intuitively allow you to have multiple to addresses listed. A bit of searching showed that setting the to: section of the filter on gmail to something like this does the trick:
someone@abc.com) OR to:(someoneelse@xyz.com
Gmail will provide the opening and closing parens. If you have more then two addresses, you'll do something like this:
someone@abc.com) OR to:(lol@laugh.com) to:(someoneelse@xyz.com
All above are great ideas. But with tmobile blackberry it says you can setup 10 emails to deliver to the device. My question is related in nature.
When you reply, can you choose which email account you are replying from?
You inbox will be full of diff sent to: emails. when you hit reply, will it automatically reply from the sent to email or can you choose?
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i agree with what anonymous said...it is a problem if you have your email forward to bb email address because it will send from the main email account, in my case a business. I want it to come from my gmail account, not the business.
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