Gmail Forwarding Delays, Problems when emailing from another Gmail account
Jan.11, 2008 in
Tech
I setup auto-forwarding for a client’s Gmail account today and ran into a couple of interesting problems. Firstly, I tested the auto-forwarding function from my own Gmail account, with the forwarding email address set to my own Gmail account. After a number of attempts, i discovered that i wasn’t receiving the forwarded emails.
After playing around a bit, I discovered that the forwarded emails worked fine as long as I didn’t have the forwarding address set to the same as the address I was sending the test emails from. After sending a test email from a different account, the forwarding worked fine. Lesson: don’t try and test Gmail auto-forwarding by sending an email from the address you are forwarding back to!
April 25th, 2008 at 1:39 am
Thanks for saving me some troubleshooting!
May 29th, 2008 at 11:25 am
thanks man, i ran into the same problem, sent a test from another account and it worked perfect. great for having multiple accounts all go to the same mailbox
July 26th, 2008 at 4:22 am
haha, thats so annoying, i was doing the same thing, thinking it wasnt working, tried from another account and the mail showed up that second on my iphone!! ha. cheers!!
October 27th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Yup thanks
October 30th, 2008 at 2:19 am
I just wasted some time with the same problem. Weird bug… I still haven’t found a way to apply a label to all forwarded mail once it arrives. If the original address is explicitly written in the “to:” line you can just make a filter. But if you got the mail as part of a list, I don’t know what you can do (other than adding each list individually…) Since my second address is an official university one, lists accounts for a great deal of my total incoming mail there.
Oh well…
November 18th, 2008 at 8:48 am
Great advice! Wasn’t finding any answers on Google “help”. THANK YOU!
January 27th, 2009 at 3:49 am
It’s a bit worse; any mail sent from @stevej.com to @stevej.com will not get forwarded, if forwarding is configured for the receiving account. And if receiving is configured, Gmail won’t let you create a “To:” filter for that account.
Creating a filter for “From:” also does not work. So you can’t send a message to yourself and have it forwarded.
Quite a nuisance for those who love Gmail’s spam filtering, near-infinite storage, and searching capabilities, but hate it’s non-standard POP behavior. I’d switch to IMAP, but it’s just too slow with my old but beloved Eudora client.
January 31st, 2009 at 1:41 pm
GMail forwarding works perfectly for me…
i sent out a test email from my rediff.com account to gmail account. It works!
February 13th, 2009 at 3:41 am
thanks !! very helpful post!
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:23 pm
sry i just know how to write my name in arabic
) anyway however my english not that good but i think i get the point. thanks
March 6th, 2009 at 2:36 am
Very helpful post.
As I really need this forwarding, just created a “dummy” address and configured forwarding as: (alternate@gmail.com -> dummy@hotmail.com -> main@gmail.com) Now, I get back any message sent from “main” to “alternate”
Have fun
March 17th, 2009 at 5:22 am
Haha, thanks man, I spent the last half hour trying to figure out why I wasn’t getting the forwarded e-mails. This was a great help!
April 25th, 2009 at 2:04 am
THANKS TONS for posting this. Saved tons of diagnosis time.
July 15th, 2009 at 9:31 am
Excuse me for the OFF-TOPIC: Where did you get the graphics in your header? Freeware or commercial?
July 20th, 2009 at 8:08 am
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August 14th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Thanks very much for this update. Helped me resolve the issue right away.
Cheers!
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:01 am
Wow! what an idea ! What a concept ! Beautiful .. Amazing
November 14th, 2009 at 5:28 am
Hi. Congratulations on your outstanding post. I only use e-mail for my line of work. I preferably work with Outlook as my e-mail client and with the help of Email Sorter Wizard, an Outlook add-in, I sort all my email. You made a good point.
November 17th, 2009 at 8:37 am
Thanks so much. I was getting ticked because I was trying to send myself a copy of an email and it wouldn’t go thru. Thanks for saving me lots of frustration. Sent from another account and it worked perfectly!!!
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:11 am
Yep, probably disabled because it would create a loop. When you sent the mail to yourself, it would forward to yourself over and over until it filled the inbox limit.
November 28th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
wow, thanks for the tip, I was starting to get pissed off
December 4th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Thanks, I ran into this problem as well!
December 14th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Thanks! This saved me a lot of pain!
January 24th, 2010 at 6:41 am
Another thanks from a frustrated user.
May 27th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
How many man-hours of WASTED TIME have you created gmail? If there’s a reason for this, then at least warn the person. Isn’t it freaking obvious that people are going to try this?????? IDIOTS
August 27th, 2010 at 7:03 am
have my children.
This saved me my sanity. Thank you!
August 27th, 2010 at 9:54 am
For forwarding emails from lists, which someone asked about above -
Gmail’s filters are actually a lot more literal than expected … you can forward *all* of your email by simply creating a filter using only the “Doesn’t have” field. For example, if you create a filter that says only “Doesn’t have: antidisestablishmentarianism”, all of your emails (presumably you don’t get any emails with that word) will be forwarded using that filter, regardless of whether they come from a listserv.