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I have been trying to find a way to forward emails from my Gmail address to my Facebook email address. When I went to Gmail settings and tried to set up email forwarding from there, Gmail was unable to send a confirmation code to my Facebook address because Facebook rejected the email and returned a copy of the email with the confirmation link all X'd out.
How can I forward emails to my Facebook email address?
It’s not exactly a forward per se, but you can use the notifications feature to receive the messages to your email address associated with your Facebook account—not the @facebook.com one, but the @at_your_email_provider.com one—which needs to be set as the primary email address. The problem is that it doesn’t discriminate between emails sent to @facebook.com and Facebook messages, it forwards everything. Also note that it’s not really reliable, sometimes the messages being delivered and sometimes not.
You should be able to setup both the unconditional forwarding rule and filtered forwarding rule in Gmail as described and see this kick in.
Just to clarify, below is the description of the desired behavior and steps to get it configured.
forward (unconditionally/everything) to email1
if (filtermatches) {
also forward to email2
}
The steps to get this configured are:
Add/Register/Verify each forwarding address:
Gmail's Settings > Forwarding and POP/IMAP > Add a Forwarding Address (button)
Note - adding the forwarding address does not automatically set mail to forward to it; it only adds an email address to the list of forwarding options.
Note - you can add multiple addresses, but only ever select one per forwarding rule; you will need to verify each forwarding email address option
Configure the unconditional forwarding rule:
Best Answer
I would consider retrying. It could be that you are not using the correct email address.
I received the following after trying
As well as a notice at the top after enabling forwarding
Also most of the mail will show up in your other folder so you will have to use "Action > Move to Messages" to train the filter so you can get notifications, for example on your mobile device instead of push mail.
I will let forwarding run for a few days and give updates if anything changes.