psylichon
03-09-2009, 08:56 PM
So I've tried various methods to get my Gmail to push to me since I got the iPhone. They all entailed forwarding to a proxy email service that pushes properly to the iPhone. I'd given up each time previously because I was too annoyed by getting emails twice on the phone and having to delete things twice.
Well, I had a chat with up10ad the other day, and he pointed me to some settings and parameters I wasn't aware of. This info may have likely dawned on many of you, but for those who are still looking for a way to get their Gmail pushed relatively tranparently, here's what I did:
1. You'll need a push account. I use Yahoo because it's free and works well (now... didn't always). I don't give my yahoo address out, only my gmail.
2. Sign into Gmail from your desktop and go to settings
3. Under "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" select to "Forward a copy of incoming mail to [your push email address] and archive Gmail's copy
4. Setup both email accounts on your iPhone
5. On the iPhone, go to Settings - Fetch New Data - Turn on Push the hit Advanced at the bottom
6. Set your Gmail account to Manual, and your push account to Push
7. Now go to Settings - Mail, Contacts, Calendars - and set the Default Account to your gmail account (assuming you, like me, want your mail to show up as from gmail)
Now, on my iPhone, I get my forwarded Gmail via Yahoo within 1 minute. I delete pretty much everything after reading, because it's archived on Gmail (I want Gmail to remain the central hub for email searching purposes). I don't get multiple emails showing up on my phone, because nothing is ever in my Gmail inbox... it's archived.
The only thing I need to be aware of is when starting an email from the email app or replying to an email, I need to change the "From:" field to my gmail address. Due to step #7, sending email from any other app defaults to my Gmail account. Since 95% of my email from the iPhone starts in the camera roll, this works just fine for me.
So there you go. A walkthrough that is nothing new... just new to me. Hope it helps someone...
And here's hoping this isn't necessary for long. Get on the Push wagon, Google!
Well, I had a chat with up10ad the other day, and he pointed me to some settings and parameters I wasn't aware of. This info may have likely dawned on many of you, but for those who are still looking for a way to get their Gmail pushed relatively tranparently, here's what I did:
1. You'll need a push account. I use Yahoo because it's free and works well (now... didn't always). I don't give my yahoo address out, only my gmail.
2. Sign into Gmail from your desktop and go to settings
3. Under "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" select to "Forward a copy of incoming mail to [your push email address] and archive Gmail's copy
4. Setup both email accounts on your iPhone
5. On the iPhone, go to Settings - Fetch New Data - Turn on Push the hit Advanced at the bottom
6. Set your Gmail account to Manual, and your push account to Push
7. Now go to Settings - Mail, Contacts, Calendars - and set the Default Account to your gmail account (assuming you, like me, want your mail to show up as from gmail)
Now, on my iPhone, I get my forwarded Gmail via Yahoo within 1 minute. I delete pretty much everything after reading, because it's archived on Gmail (I want Gmail to remain the central hub for email searching purposes). I don't get multiple emails showing up on my phone, because nothing is ever in my Gmail inbox... it's archived.
The only thing I need to be aware of is when starting an email from the email app or replying to an email, I need to change the "From:" field to my gmail address. Due to step #7, sending email from any other app defaults to my Gmail account. Since 95% of my email from the iPhone starts in the camera roll, this works just fine for me.
So there you go. A walkthrough that is nothing new... just new to me. Hope it helps someone...
And here's hoping this isn't necessary for long. Get on the Push wagon, Google!