GMail pushing to iPhone (Softbank-JP)
Softbank in Japan providing the iPhone holders with an email address {sb_account}@i.softbank.jp and also pushing notifications on email arrivals for that address to the mobile. To have the same functionality for your GMail accounts:
- Create new ‘mobile’ label (optional)
- Create new filter
- to:{gmail_account}+mobi@gmail.com, for example new.napster+mobi@gmail.com
- Skip the Inbox (optional)
- Mark as read (optional)
- Apply the label: mobile (optional)
- Forward it to: {sb_account}@i.softbank.jp (required)
- Pros: free messages backup, provider independent
- Cons: Google dependency, no more free emails between Softbank members
