Add a project email as a forwarding address in Google
I want to be able to auto-forward certain emails to todoist, using a Gmail filter. Now, as you may know, Gmail makes you confirm any address that you would like to auto-forward the email to.
The problem is that when I enter in an forwarding email into Google settings such as project.1351198@todoist.net, I don't receive the customary email from mail-noreply@google.com, that contains the confirmation code for me to approve that forwarding address.
So I tried to get smart and attempted to add the mail-noreply@google.com into todoist so that it will accept email from that address, but I got an error message.
Now, this seems to be such a common need that there's got to be a solution - so please advise.
Asked by aturetsky on Oct 18, 2011 - 08:24
David Trey
on Oct 18, 2011 - 09:17
Hello,
unfortunately, it's not possible. For security reasons, every email address added to Todoist has to be verified.
The only workaround you could try is to forward your Gmail mails to a different email account not hosted by Google, verify it and then set a forwarding rule for the second address to send all mails coming from your Gmail account to Todoist.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Best regards,
David
aturetsky on Oct 18, 2011 - 09:22
>>The only workaround you could try is to forward your Gmail mails to a different email account
Can you think of one that doesn't require verification?
David Trey
on Oct 18, 2011 - 10:13
Unfortunately, this is the only solution to avoid Google's verification without using an email client like Outlook or Thunderbird.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Best regards,
David
aturetsky on Oct 18, 2011 - 10:30
What is the only solution to avoid Google's verification? Perhaps you misunderstood my follow-up question. You wrote that I can forward my gmail to different email account. That makes sense - so I am just asking if you know email providers that I can forward to that would not require verification, like Google does.
David Trey
on Oct 18, 2011 - 12:56
Sorry for the misunderstanding. You can create a Windows Live Hotmail account http://www.hotmail.com/ which doesn't require verification for mail forwarding.
After signing in, choose "more options" from the "Options" link in the top-right corner and then "Email forwarding" from the "Managing your account" section.
Best regards,
David