Forward Emails from Gmail to Google Wave
Don’t do it! (yet)
With getting a new Google Wave account, I wanted to forward my Gmail emails to my Google Wave account. I saw that my Google Wave account was [username]@googlewave.com so I figured I could do it. I went into Gmail. Followed Settings > Forward and set up Gmail to pass all of my emails on to google wave.
I left it on for a day or so, and maybe that was my big mistake. I have been getting emails every 20-30 minutes that have been telling me they cannot send my emails to Google Wave, and that they will retry for the next 2 days. They have a subject line of ‘Delivery Status Notification (Failure)’. Obviously I turned off my forwarding, however now, 3 days later, they are still coming in every 20-30 minutes telling me that the email failed.
So moral of the story. Don’t automatically forward your emails to Google Wave (yet!) and also, don’t leave that forward on any longer than you have to. Google Wave is not ready for it yet and it will get REALLY annoying.
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November 20th, 2009 at 7:53 am
Well that’s horrible news!! I was hoping to do exactly what you did.. Thanks for the info!
November 30th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Phew. I was about to try that.
December 1st, 2009 at 8:28 pm
Ditto. Thanks!
January 8th, 2010 at 7:57 am
I was also gonna try that… well thanks for the post. Was just trying to “make use” of my Wave account.
January 27th, 2010 at 8:42 am
Hey. Great info. Just wanted to tell you that your sidebar appears broken in IE6. Please fix it.
July 27th, 2010 at 5:39 pm
So HOW do you forward an email to a wave then? so that the email becomes part of the items in a wave. Anybody?