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Steve_90

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I have roadrunner internet service at home, and have my droid receiving email from rrwebmail. The roadrunner junk mail filter is worthless and I get junk mail all day. I use a mac computer at home, and the junk filter is decent on it. Is there any way to have my droid receive mail from there instead of roadrunner webmail. Or do you know a different solution?
thanks
 
The junk mail filter on your Mac is exactly that - it's on your Mac. Your Mac will receive all the same junk mail as your phone does, but the software on your Mac will filter some of it out.

Google Mail has the best junk mail filter on the planet, it gets zero false positives and in using it for 2 years I've only ever seen 1 junk email get through. So, what I'd do is set up your GMail account to pull the emails from your roadrunner account (tell it to leave the emails on the server, that way you'll get them at home too), and just use the GMail app for your email.

The down side of this, is that if you reply to an email on your phone (unless this is different in Android 2 + ?) it will appear to come from your GMail account, not your roadrunner account. You can get around this by accessing your GMail account using the browser, but it's still a little annoying.
 
You need to do it online. So grab your PC/Mac and log onto http://mail.google.com using the email/password you used for your phone when you first activated it. Once you're logged in click Settings at the top right, when the settings page loads click the Accounts and Import tab. There should now be a Add POP3 email account button or link. Follow the wizzard to add a new POP3 account - you'll need the details for your roadrunner account (incoming mail server address, email address, username, password, etc). Look out for the option to keep emails on the server (otherwise it will delete the emails after it downloads them to your GMail account, and you'll not get them on your computer).

Once you've set it up, if you go back to the Settings page and go to the Accounts and Import tab, you should see your account listed there, and a Check mail now link. Click that to force it to check for new email (it will do it automatically every few minutes anyway). You should hopefully see some emails appear in your GMail account. Try sending yourself a test email.

On your phone, run the GMail app, and you should see the same emails as you do on the GMail website. Your phone should also inform you the instant you get a new email (or within a few seconds anyway).

On your Mac, you will also need to tell it to keep emails on the server, or use IMAP instead of POP3. Otherwise your Mac will download the emails and delete them off the server, and you'll not see them on the phone. It may already be set up like this.
 
Thanks!!
I went online and did all of that. I am waiting on the confirmation email to arrive. Can you tell me how to stop receiving email on my droid stright from the roadrunner account, and only from Gmail?
 
I take it you're using the Email app? Just go into the Email app and either set the time it checks emails to Never, or remove the account. I can't recall exactly how to do that, but it's in the settings in the Email app somewhere, assuming you're using it.

My advice would be to tell it to never check, rather than removing the account. That way, if you do need to revert to the old system you still can.
 
OK! I think I have it all under control now. thank you again. One last question tho. in gmail it shows I have one old message in the inbox. but I can't find how to see it, it is one that I already read. but i cant view it
 
Yeah, that sometimes happens for some reason, and I can't for the life of me ever figure out what the cause actually is.

First, check on your GMail account online (using your Mac) and see if there really is an email somewhere. This is the easiest fix. If you find it, delete it or move it somewhere, or read it. Hit Menu then Refresh in the GMail app on your phone.

Second, if that didn't work, in the GMail app on your phone, press Menu, Settings, Labels, and set Number of days to sync to 999, and then in the same menu press your Inbox and set Sync all. Sometimes you have old emails that the GMail app doesn't bother downloading because it's so old, and this will force it to download everything (or at least every email with a date less than 999 days old).

If you still have an email in your Inbox that you can't see, you can reset the data GMail has downloaded by going to Home -> Menu -> Settings -> Applications -> Manage applications -> Google Mail Storage -> Clear data, then go back into the GMail app and wait for it to re-synchronise. That will get a fresh copy of what's on the GMail server to your phone.
 
You can't. GMail seems to check your email at least once an hour, but more frequently if you receive emails more frequently than that. For example, on accounts where I get emails every few minutes it seems to check them every 5 minutes. On accounts where I get emails every few days it only checks every hour.

If you want instant emails, you will have to set up an email forwarder from your other account to your GMail account. This will make any email sent to that account get bounced immediately to your GMail account. The drawback of this is that you will not (unless it's a very good email system) be able to keep a copy on your other email system.
 
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