How to Setup GMail as a Free Spam Filter for Your CrackBerry

[SarahAnn]

I love my gmail account. I just use AOL for my dummy account...myspace and what not

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[patrick.waugh]

Problem with this strategy is that it will delay your email a bit too.

I think it's just far better to use GMail as the master inbox, and it's filters to setup which email you want forwarded to the device right away, and which you don't want forwarded. You can then allow gmail's excellent filters to work for you without sending mail in a loop.

If you are a corp user, then you'll have corp spam filtering and no need to do this at all.

Patrick

[giorgosh]

Sounds a really useful idea! I really like Gmails spam filters and will be using them to filter my corp email too! May I ask whether it will forward ALL Outlook emails or just the inbox? I'm asking cause I got the issue describe below:
http://forums.crackberry.com/f2/not-...d-mails-93676/

[ppbb]

Originally Posted by dshogan

How do I reply to received messages without them coming from the gmail address? I have changed my reply to: but when I do the replying it comes from gmail.

i'm having the same issue. Any replies it always defaults to the Gmail acct.

if i forward a message i can select which email acct to forward with. but not on any replies. strange.
I do love gmail's spam filter. it really works well.

thanks for all the tips, this forum is great.

[The Bone]

Originally Posted by ppbb

i'm having the same issue. Any replies it always defaults to the Gmail acct.

if i forward a message i can select which email acct to forward with. but not on any replies. strange.
I do love gmail's spam filter. it really works well.

thanks for all the tips, this forum is great.

Got exactly the same problem.....please someone help!!

[ppbb]

i think i figured out why it is happening. since the mail is downloaded thru gmail, when you hit reply it will only reply from the account the mail was downloaded on. on my desktop I can select any mail account to reply from. but the bb only allows reply from that same account the mail was received on. why? I have no idea. BUt what I do now is forward the mail and copy/paste the recipients. not the best way but at least my business contacts see email from my business account this way.

maybe some of you smart bb users can figure out a cure. til then i'll play with my curve that i love.

[ppbb]

btw -i do want add that this gmail spam filter works great. its catching all the spam and passing thru the good mail. i think there was 1 message in the spam folder that was legit email. all the others were spam and its working great!

[ppbb]

Man this thread be deader than JFK.

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[Jonneh]

Originally Posted by dshogan

How do I reply to received messages without them coming from the gmail address? I have changed my reply to: but when I do the replying it comes from gmail.

I, too have this same problem.

[tom001]

Any luck in solving the problem above?

[pooh87567]

how much does it cost on phone bill? thank new to website

[naviwilliams]

If you have a BlackBerry, you should really have unlimited data package, too...

Originally Posted by pooh87567

how much does it cost on phone bill? thank new to website

[nitu]

Originally Posted by ppbb

i think i figured out why it is happening. since the mail is downloaded thru gmail, when you hit reply it will only reply from the account the mail was downloaded on. on my desktop I can select any mail account to reply from. but the bb only allows reply from that same account the mail was received on. why? I have no idea. BUt what I do now is forward the mail and copy/paste the recipients. not the best way but at least my business contacts see email from my business account this way.

maybe some of you smart bb users can figure out a cure. til then i'll play with my curve that i love.

this is preventing me of using my gmail account as a spam filter.... I'm very upset with this

[snatch2266]

thanks for this

[vgrippi]

I forward all of my email addresses through gmail and then use the gmail app. When I respond to an email, it is sent using the address it was initially sent to. So if an email is sent to my domain address, and it comes through gmail, when i respond to an email, the from is my domain address. i think the only issue is sending a new message from the app. then it send from the gmail.com address.

although their may be a way to fix this by adding more email accounts in the gmail app. haven't tried that yet.

but overall i'm pretty happy with the gmail app experience.