TUAW Tip: Tell Gmail not to send your iPhone a copy of sent mail

hi. the way to do this is to set a filter in your gmail for your email address and then set it to delete the email. after that you wont get sent messages.

i just figured this out with the aid of someone else and it took over an hour and we tried all the different configurations.

I tried doing this and it just made it worse. I wasn't getting any of my emails (even when I went in to check manually). I was also not able to send any emails. Anyone else had this problem with this "solution"?

Gino

Well, really, I hope that Gmail on the iPhone is the impetus for the Gmail team to implement IMAP for Gmal.

i did this and then it stopped recieving new e-mails altogether. then when i turned it back on the iPhone downloaded EVERY message again! what a pain in the ass.

This has been happening to me on my blackberry for ages. It has to do with the google "chat", where basically anything you reply to is automatically copied to yourself and tagged for that "conversation". I am not sure if you can, but if there is a way to "disable" the "chat" function in gmail, then this should stop. I do not believe there is a way to turn it off though.

Right, the article's solution doesn't work (as noted). I noticed immediately that email from my Mac would not be received back by my Mac, but the iPhone would still receive it.

A better solution is to create a filter in Gmail to filter out mail from you to either your archive, sent or trash folders (depending on what you want. Remember, you should already have a Sent, so the trash is not a bad idea). This works much better than the solution outlined in the article, and makes it a done deal, no matter where you're checking or sending your email.

One way is to go to your gmail preferences and select the Filter tab, create a new filter and insert your gmail address. finish up these steps and it should work. I haven't had any problems since.

A much better solution to this problem is discussed in this thread: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=323090

I signed up for an AIM.com mail account (2gb, imap access) and have all of my gmail forward there and the outgoing still going through the gmail account. I don't touch the gmail account it just kinda does it's google apps for my domain-y goodness

This has not been working for me for a week.