Comments on: Autoforwarding a single gmail address to multiple other addresses

Question: Autoforwarding a single gmail address to multiple other addresses

scrump — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:08:16 -0800

How do I set up a gmail account that automatically forwards anything it receives to two other accounts?

My wife and I used to have a handy couple@domain email address that automatically forwarded to both of us at other addresses. Predictably, that was set up using a .forward statement on a Linux machine.

Now we both use gmail more or less exclusively, and there doesn't seem to be a way to say "forward all the mail that comes to this account to these two different accounts". Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this?

By: spiderskull

spiderskull — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:13:20 -0800

Create two filters. Go into Settings -> Filters, and "Create a new filter." Then set the "To:" field to your Gmail address, hit "Next" and select the first email in the forwarding field. Repeat this process for the second address.

By: scrump

scrump — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:34:22 -0800

Okay, now I feel like an idiot. That's precisely what I wanted, spiderskull: I just couldn't manage to think of it. Thanks!

By: flabdablet

flabdablet — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:18:40 -0800

Another way to do this is to have each of the target Gmail accounts pull messages from couple@gmail via POP3. Configure Gmail's POP3 fetcher to leave the messages on the server after retrieval, and you should be good.