forwarding husbands gmail to my gmail using Outlook 2007

[roxbits]

In a nutshell, I'm not receiving forwarded gmail from gmail to gmail
in Outlook 2007.

Here is my issue. We own a business and email is an important part of
doing business. To further muddy up the problem, I have 6 computers
but only 1 uses OE and 1 uses Outlook 2007 at a time. We travel quite
a bit and have computers spread out.

I use Outlook 2007 and my husband uses Outlook Express. He is a
computer newbie and thus all of his mail used to come to me. When I
set him up, he was not receiving his gmail in OE.

I deleted his gmail account from my Outlook 2007 and he then was
getting his gmail without any problems.

I did a forward of his gmail to my gmail and after some grueling time,
was able to receive his mail and not upset his mail on OE. This
worked well on both win xp and vista until yesterday.

Yesterday, I had problems with our business web site sending mail. I
had the mail forwarded to my husbands gmail and that worked except
that I was not getting that forwarded (web contact mail, forwarded to
husbands gmail addy) mail on my Outlook 2007.

I couldn't remember why I deleted his gmail account on my outlook and
put it back in and removed the forwarded settings on his account.
That worked for the web forwarding but then, of course, my husband
said he wasn't getting his mail on the computer (iPhone is still
working).

I deleted his account on my outlook 2007, he is now getting his mail
again on his OE. I've tried all day and have searched for answers but
cannot get this to work.

I know it does work because it has been working for the last 6
months. I also remember that I had an horrible time getting it to
work originally.

I have found the forwarded mail in "ALL MAIL" using the gmail website.

I can forward mail from my comcast.net account to his gmail account
and it WILL forward to my outlook and to the gmail website inbox.
It's just the gmail to gmail that isn't working.

I have settings to forward; keep copy in inbox; enable pop, keep copy
in inbox and enable imap (for iPhone, I assume). We also have the
accounts set up on 2 iPhones.

Hence: my question to you.

HOW CAN I CONFIGURE ONE GMAIL ACCOUNT TO FORWARD ANOTHER GMAIL ACCOUNT
USING OUTLOOK 2007?

I'm fighting a migraine, I'm sorry if I'm being jumbled but I'm at
wits end here. I thank you all and appreciate you time in reading
this and helping me out! Bless you.,..

[abhijeetsingh07]

Its better that you forward mail within Gmail and then forward it to
outlook:

here is the way
for eg: Gmail1 is your husband mail
Gmail2 is your gmail account

Now you want to forward Gmail1 to Gmail2
there are two ways, First through Forwarding and POP/IMAP and second
through filters

1) through Forwarding and POP/IMAP:
In Gmail1 go to Setting->Forwarding and POP/IMAP

1.a) Forwarding: Select "Forward a copy of incoming mail to [Mention
Gmail2 here] and select from drop down menu "keep Gmail's copy in
inbox"

Now you are getting Gmail1 to your Gmail2. Add a filter which will
Label automatically the Incoming Gmail1 in Gmail2. So then u can
differentiate which is Gmail1 and which is Gmail2.

1.b) Second Enable POP (which I think you have already done as you
are receiving in Outlook)
In "When messages are accessed with POP" select "keep Gmail's copy in
inbox" from drop down menu so that Gmail1 also receives mail in inbox

Now go to Gmail2
go to settings-> Accounts
scroll down and you can see "Get mail from other accounts:" and click
"Add a mail account you own" and configure Gmail1 in Gmail2 and POP
Gmail2 to Outlook.

2) Filters - Create a filter in Gmail1 of receiving all mails and
forwarding to Gmail2.

I would say you go with procedure 1

[Andrew Ingraham]

Two things you should keep in mind with Gmail:

(1) If you use POP to access Gmail from any email client program
(Outlook, OE, Thunderbird, etc.), usually only the first client to
download the emails gets to do it. Once an email has been downloaded
(via POP), it is marked as such and is not available to be downloaded
again by another client. I don't know if that is a factor here or
not. (You can override this behavior using the "Recent" mode:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47948
but I had mixed results when I tried it, a while back.)

(2) Gmail has this annoying 'feature' that emails received by Gmail,
that were sent from the same Gmail account, are discarded. They do
this so that you don't 'clutter' up your Inbox with the 'unnecessary'
additional copy, since it also has the original that you sent (look in
All Mail or Sent Mail, or in your client program's Sent folder). So
when you send an email from your account to his, and it forwards back
to yours, Gmail recognizes it as one you sent and discards the
received copy. But the one sent from Comcast is new, so it keeps it.

Bear in mind that Outlook and Outlook Express are not part of Gmail.
You can set up auto-forwarding in Gmail (separate from Outlook), or
you can set it up in Outlook (separate from Gmail), and either ought
to work. It sounds like you are confusing the distinction between the
two.

Andy

[roxbits]

Thanks... I really didn't think to try to forward from OE. I've just
been trying to forward from the gmail site.

I did try to do the 'add a mail account i own' within my own settings
but got an error report: "smtp.gmail.com does not support leaving
messages on the server" // when i uncheck that box and submit then I
get this message: "Server denied POP3 access for the given username
and password."

This did work before, I'm kicking myself for trying to tweak it!

Guess I'll go back to square on and start all over.. today is a new
day for headache ;-)

thanks for your help...

[yugendar roy]

Two things you should keep in mind with Gmail:

(1) If you use POP to access Gmail from any email client program
(Outlook, OE, Thunderbird, etc.), usually only the first client to
download the emails gets to do it. Once an email has been downloaded
(via POP), it is marked as such and is not available to be downloaded
again by another client. I don't know if that is a factor here or
not. (You can override this behavior using the "Recent" mode:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47948
but I had mixed results when I tried it, a while back.)

(2) Gmail has this annoying 'feature' that emails received by Gmail,
that were sent from the same Gmail account, are discarded. They do
this so that you don't 'clutter' up your Inbox with the 'unnecessary'
additional copy, since it also has the original that you sent (look in
All Mail or Sent Mail, or in your client program's Sent folder). So
when you send an email from your account to his, and it forwards back
to yours, Gmail recognizes it as one you sent and discards the
received copy. But the one sent from Comcast is new, so it keeps it.

Bear in mind that Outlook and Outlook Express are not part of Gmail.
You can set up auto-forwarding in Gmail (separate from Outlook), or
you can set it up in Outlook (separate from Gmail), and either ought
to work. It sounds like you are confusing the distinction between the
two.

Andy

[roxbits]

i'm still not getting the copy of my mail that i forward on....
meaning:

1. i receive email A (using outlook 2007):

2. i forward email A, because i think it's funny to email B (gmail to
gmail) again, within outlook

3. i have email B forwarded to email A using the gmail settings,
therefore i SHOULD receive email A back from the forwarded mail

4. i did not receive email A back but i am receiving other forwarded
mail

this used to work for me before i messed with it and removed the
forwarding -- some other setting or something changed when i removed
the original forwarding.... any ideas?

again, thanks for the input!

-wendy

On Mar 7, 9:07 am, yugendar roy <yugascir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Two things you should keep in mind with Gmail:
>
> (1) If you use POP to access Gmail from any email client program
> (Outlook, OE, Thunderbird, etc.), usually only the first client to
> download the emails gets to do it.  Once an email has been downloaded
> (via POP), it is marked as such and is not available to be downloaded
> again by another client.  I don't know if that is a factor here or
> not.  (You can override this behavior using the "Recent" mode:
>  http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47948
> but I had mixed results when I tried it, a while back.)
>
> (2) Gmail has this annoying 'feature' that emails received by Gmail,
> that were sent from the same Gmail account, are discarded.  They do
> this so that you don't 'clutter' up your Inbox with the 'unnecessary'
> additional copy, since it also has the original that you sent (look in
> All Mail or Sent Mail, or in your client program's Sent folder).  So
> when you send an email from your account to his, and it forwards back
> to yours, Gmail recognizes it as one you sent and discards the
> received copy.  But the one sent from Comcast is new, so it keeps it.
>
> Bear in mind that Outlook and Outlook Express are not part of Gmail.
> You can set up auto-forwarding in Gmail (separate from Outlook), or
> you can set it up in Outlook (separate from Gmail), and either ought
> to work.  It sounds like you are confusing the distinction between the
> two.
>
> Andy
>

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[bkennelly]

Gmail discards duplicates so you cannot forward mail back to
yourself. You never could.

[roxbits]

all i'm trying to do is forward my husbands gmail to my gmail and
retrieving it from outlook 2007.

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[bkennelly]

As you wrote, that is working:

> 4. i did not receive email A back but i am receiving other forwarded
> mail

You will not receive copies of messages you sent, because it is
duplicate.
1) When you send a message, a copy is stored in your account.
2) His account receives the message, and forwards it to your account
3) On reaching your account, the message is recognised as a duplicate
of an existing message, and discarded.

[Julie]

The problem could be that with the changes that you made you have 'asociated' both your email address and your husbands with "You" in contacts.

Let me try to explain using your example;

1. you receive email A (sent to wb@gmail) Gmail knows that this is "roxbits"
2. you forward email A to husbwb@gmail.
3. husbwb@gmail is set to forward mail to wb@gmail

The email returns to wb@gmail but either it is coming in with a from address of wb@gmail, in which case it is discarded as a duplicate.  Or it is coming in with a from address of husbwb@gmail, but because you have added both wb@gmail and husbwb@gmail to MYbusiness group in contacts, it still sees it as a duplicate.

Complicated I know, but check in your contacts to see what your husbands address is listed under.

[Zack (Doc)]

When automatic forwarding is happening, the from is not changes, so
your first example "coming in from address of wb@gmail, in which case
it is discarded as a duplicate." is the right answer.

--

Oscar Wilde - "The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

[Julie]

Wendy,

A further thought. 

you said that ;

2.  i forward email A, because i think it's funny to email B (gmail to
gmail) again, within outlook

when you forward this mail, also include the address in the BCC field. The 'forwarded' mail may then be discarded, but the 'new' BCC'd mail will be treated seperately. I think.  Worth trying.

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 7:40 PM, roxbits <wendy...@gmail.com> wrote:

[bhagwati lal dashora [salvi]]

hi! Wendy & Julie, I can not understand what you want to ask or to tell. Please help me so that I can understand your veiws

Thanx
 

[Andy]

> all i'm trying to do is forward my husbands gmail to my gmail and
> retrieving it from outlook 2007.

As we've been trying to say, this won't work as long as you use the same
Gmail account on your end. It's a nasty feature that I dislike about Gmail,
but unfortunately that is how Gmail works. Period.

You could open a second account for yourself, then you could send emails to
your husband from one account, that then forward to your *other* account.

Or you could have your Outlook connect to his account (and use Recent mode)
so that you don't need to forward from his account to yours.

Andy

[roxbits]

hi bhagwati.. thanks for trying to help. I have my husbands gmail
forwarded to my gmail. I use Outlook 2007 to read and forward mail.
I had this working and for some reason I decided to access his mail
directly and then he quite getting his mail (he uses OE on his
laptop). I then remembered why I had his mail forwarded ;-)

I think I'm missing a setting as I'm not getting a return of the mail
that I forward to him. That is, you mail me a joke, i think it's
funny, i forward it to my husband. I should be getting that joke back
and I'm pretty sure I was before I disabled the forwarding.

However, Andy is telling me that I never did have that feature... I
still think I did unless people are mailing to my comcast account.....

another however, it's possible that i was bcc'ing him the mail when i
was receiving it back...

anyway, it's not a biggie... I seem to be receiving his mail again and
that is the most important item

thanks..
wendy

On Mar 9, 4:45 am, "bhagwati lal dashora [salvi]"

<bldash...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi! Wendy & Julie, I can not understand what you want to ask or to tell.
> Please help me so that I can understand your veiws
> Thanx
>

> On 3/9/09, Julie <julieja...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Wendy,
>
> > A further thought.
>
> > you said that ;
> > 2.  i forward email A, because i think it's funny to email B (gmail to
> > gmail) again, within outlook
>
> > when you forward this mail, also include the address in the BCC field. The
> > 'forwarded' mail may then be discarded, but the 'new' BCC'd mail will be
> > treated seperately. I think.  Worth trying.
>

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