Using Gmail as a go between or messenger to carry emails from one source to another can be extremely useful in a few different settings:
• Using a blackberry to sync emails with the computer and the blackberry
When you are using a blackberry, the emails that you open on the blackberry do not always automatically flag as read in your regular desktop application such as in Outlook. This can be very messy and frusterating, especially when trying to flag emails or sort them, as it does not automatically sync the work done on the desktop pc with the blackberry, or vice versa.
• Using emails in outlook, and accessing the same emails via web server such as yahoo, msn or gmail.
When you open an email in Google, outlook needs to understand the “flagged as read” message from Gmail, or it will remain as unread in Outlook. This will, as posted above in the blackberry issue, be very annoying if you are trying to keep your inbox synced.
The solution? Use Gmail as an Imap messenger, and have emails forwarded from the gmail to your blackberry, or from your exchange server. For example: imagine your email is support at howtowindows.com. If you want to get these on both sources and have the flagged messeges flagged as read, deleted or sorted, you will need to configure a new gmail account to handle the emails, and then be picked up by Outlook.
Step 1:
First create a new Gmail ID. Next, set-up your email provider to automatically forward emails to your new Gmail ID.
In 1and1.com for example (where we host this website), it is under the email settings section of the control panel.
Step 2:
Once you have the emails automatically forwarding form your provider, setup the Gmail account settings the following way:
By following these settings, all of the processed emails will be handled on Googles “cloud”, where the desired effects as outlined above will happen!
Hope this helps!
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