I was extremely frustrated with the iphone treating all of my mail as new and unread! Even after I archived everything and the inbox was empty, I was still getting the same damn emails on my phone!
Gmail does not have the ability to sync or push your mail, BUT there is a great work around that I read about that makes it simple.
On your computer:
1) Set up a FREE AOL account. This will be used for syncing and push ability from gmail to your iphone (AOL offers free IMAP which is what you've been wanting your gmail account to do!) * Don't worry, all gmail will go to your phone and all email sent by you will still have *******@gmail.com as the sender!
2) After that's set up, go to your gmail settings and set up a new filter. In the "To:" field enter your gmail address. This means that the filter will apply to all email that is sent to you. Click next. Check "skip inbox" check "Apply the label" (I made a label called iphone). Then check "Forward it to:" and enter your new aol account info there.
*This will forward all email to your phone tag them, and automatically archive them in gmail!
On your iphone:
1) Delete all of your email accounts so you're starting fresh.
2) Set up a new account, but don't choose gmail! Choose "other"
3) Select the IMAP tab and fill in the info like this:
Name: your name
Address: your gmail address
Description: whatever you want to call it
Incoming Mail Server:
Host name: imap.aol.com
User name: your aol user name
Password: your aol password
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP):
Host name: smtp.gmail.com (If mail doesn't seem to be sending, try "smtp.mail.google.com" instead)
User name: your gmail name
Password: your gmail password
That should do it! To test it, send something to your gmail from another account (hotmail... etc.) Bam! right to your phone! Then for a real kicker, reply back to it from your iphone and look at the email address.... gmail!
This has helped me immensely and I hope it helps you too
Lee
Gmail does not have the ability to sync or push your mail, BUT there is a great work around that I read about that makes it simple.
On your computer:
1) Set up a FREE AOL account. This will be used for syncing and push ability from gmail to your iphone (AOL offers free IMAP which is what you've been wanting your gmail account to do!) * Don't worry, all gmail will go to your phone and all email sent by you will still have *******@gmail.com as the sender!
2) After that's set up, go to your gmail settings and set up a new filter. In the "To:" field enter your gmail address. This means that the filter will apply to all email that is sent to you. Click next. Check "skip inbox" check "Apply the label" (I made a label called iphone). Then check "Forward it to:" and enter your new aol account info there.
*This will forward all email to your phone tag them, and automatically archive them in gmail!
On your iphone:
1) Delete all of your email accounts so you're starting fresh.
2) Set up a new account, but don't choose gmail! Choose "other"
3) Select the IMAP tab and fill in the info like this:
Name: your name
Address: your gmail address
Description: whatever you want to call it
Incoming Mail Server:
Host name: imap.aol.com
User name: your aol user name
Password: your aol password
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP):
Host name: smtp.gmail.com (If mail doesn't seem to be sending, try "smtp.mail.google.com" instead)
User name: your gmail name
Password: your gmail password
That should do it! To test it, send something to your gmail from another account (hotmail... etc.) Bam! right to your phone! Then for a real kicker, reply back to it from your iphone and look at the email address.... gmail!
This has helped me immensely and I hope it helps you too
Lee
