HELP! How can I stop iMessage hijacking mails which should be going to Gmail?

This is a little tricky for me to explain, because I don't know all the correct terminology, so I will try to write clearly. Please read carefuly, and any help would be greatly appreciated because this is causing me lots of problems! Thanks.
MY PROBLEM
1. I have a Gmail account I use for all my mail (In this explanation I will call this "[email protected])
(I have an Android phone that runs the Gmail app, and I acces Gmail through Safari on my iMac, and through the Mail app on my iPad)
2. A few months ago I bought an iPad. Presently, in my Messages settings, the "Recieve At" option is set to my Gmail address. (I must have set this up at some point, but I don't remember, and I realise my problem was perhaps linking Messages to my Gmail address in the first place)
3. There is a small group of people in my contacts whose messages keep bypassing my Gmail inbox, and going straight to Messages. I have noticed that the return addresses for this group of people is not an email address, but phone numbers, for example "From +012 3456 789". I haven't checked everyone, but I suspect the majority, if not all, of these users are sending messages with their iPhones via Messages, not Mail.
This is where I get a bit lost in the terminology, so please bear with me, messages from email to email (ie "[email protected] to [email protected]") of course go to my Gmail inbox, but mails(?) messages(?) from phone numbers to my Gmail (ie. "+0123 4567 890 to [email protected]") are bypassing my Gmail inbox and ending up in Messages. Even though the peple sending them are sending them to the address "[email protected]".
4. As I don't carry my iPad everywhere, I keep missing their messages! I've missed some really important messages because everything is being routed to Messages and is bypassing my Gmail inbox! It's so frustrating!
WHAT I TRIED SO FAR AND DIDN'T WORK
I assumed I could just switch Messages off in the settings menu, and that would solve the problem. So I tested with one of my friends who is in that particular group of contacts. I switched off Messages, he sent me a message, the message got lost in the ether, it didn't go to my Gmail inbox. (It also didn't come to Messages when I switched Messages back on). When he sent the message, he tried to send to [email protected], and it automatically loaded the Messages app, not the Mail app on his iPhone.
So, I went to the Messages settings, and went to "Recieve At [email protected]" > "You can be reached for messages at: Email [email protected]" > And on the next menu, the option for "Remove This Email" is unclickable. (I assume it's because at least one mail address must be synced?)
CAN ANYONE HELP ME?
So, what I need to do is disconnect my Gmail address from Messages, but make sure the messages from people who mail me from phone numbers +012 345 678 etc go to my Gmail address and don't get lost in the ether?

Thank you for these replies. They both help, understand what might be happening.
I turned off all the rules in Mail and still get duplicates.
I also asked gmail to delete all messages once forwarded.
Still getting some duplicates. I wonder if it's because I have two gmail accounts (one business and another personal) My Apple id is also associated to one of these gmail accounts.
Seems to me that it's going to be a couple of hours work, but the best thing would be to scrap the gmail and hotmail accounts entirely, and move everything to my @me account? Perhaps I should check out how the alias system works to keep the appearance of seperate accounts?
The issue then would be forwarding mails to my works issue Android phone..

Similar Messages

How can i stop imessage

How can I stop imessage, I have changed to an android phone and I am unable to get mt text messages

deactivate the current phone
Activate an iphone with ur number then sign out of imessage
OR
call apple care nicely and ask that they help with this

How can i stop iMessage from going through my email and only go through my number.

How can i stop iMessage from sending messages through my email also. I would like them to only go through my phone

In Settings > Messages > Send & Receive, delete your email address(es).

While composing email, keep getting "Unable to save as a draft" every 30 seconds. I've disable auto save and it didn't help.How can I stop this message?

While composing email, keep getting "Unable to save as a draft" every 30 seconds. I've disable auto save and it didn't help.How can I stop this message?

Mike,
Thank you for taking the time to look at my app. This is my last major stumbling block that I have to resolve for this and other forms in the app.
Actually, I did use the Form Wizard for Auto DML to originally create the form. It was great. It created most of the Buttons, Items and Validations automatically (basically most of the page). I just needed to create some Processes and Computations. Two of which were the Processes to update the 'create_dt' and 'created_by' fields and 'update_dt' and 'updated_by' fields. The Create process updates the fields just fine.
However, my problem seems to be that the Hidden 'create_dt' and 'created_by' fields aren't picking up the values from a record that is being editted. Then when I attempt to save the record those fields are NULL, causing the DB NOT NULL constraint to throw an exception for those fields. In the back of my mind I seem to remember seeing some post stating something to the effect that the information in fields with a Source Type of Database Column is just displayed and does not affect Session State items.
Even with that, I am still wondering just why the 'created_by' Page Item shows the value that is in the DB record being updated, but the 'create_dt" does not (as can be seen in my first posting). It is the 'create_dt' Page Item (:P205_CREATE_DT) not having the DB records 'create_dt' info in it that appears to be the problem.
Thanks,
Tom

How can I stop my e-mails to come in automaticaly, i want to do it on my own.

I beleive that my usage it gets depleted by the automatic download of junk e-mail, how can i stop it and only receive e-mails manually.
thanks

Change your mail settings for each email account you are using on the iPhone. If you have them set to Push then turn Push off. If you have it set to Fetch then make sure you have the fetch frequency changed to manually so that it will only check for emails when you enter the mail app. Otherwise, it will check based on the time interval you have it set to.

How can I stop iMessage sending messages to the wrong device

Hi,
got a small problem with iMessage. I have an iPhone and and iPAD,both of which hace iMessage enabled. My wife has an iPhone on a differenet service provider. I send her messages from my iPhone and they arrive o.k. However, when she replies or sends me one, they appear onm my iPAD. I've always got my iPhone but not my iPad with me.
How can I persuaded whatever is doing this to stop it and just send messages back to my iPhone?
Rgds
A

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Delete_a_message_without_opening_another_message

How can I stop iMessages from going to *all* of our devices?

As many households do, we share the same AppleID so that we can share apps and information easily. With iOS5, now we iMessage each other for free, BUT all other iMessages that we send to other iOS5 users are also blasted out to all other iOS5 devices. My husband doesn't want to see all my texts to other people, but now there is NO WAY to send a normal text to other iOS5 users...it will only go out as an iMessage. Is the only solution to get a separate AppleID for my husband and then buy all of our apps again for him? That would be a huge pain, essentially requiring him to erase his iPhone and iPad and start over. Or do I disable iMessages for him? Is there any way to distinguish between different users within the same AppleID?

Everyone can still use the same Apple ID. What you need to do is go into - "Settings" , "Messages", "Receive At", and add a different Email for each user for where they can be reached for messages at. Once you have added a new Email to each device delete the original Email that was there which should have been the same as your Apple ID. Then when you send a new message, send the message to the Email for that person that was just added to their iPhone. There is no need for each family member to create their own Apple ID just to use iMessage. Each family member would only need to create their own Apple ID if everyone wanted to use iCloud and not have all family members data, contacts, calendars, etc sync together. If you are also using FaceTime between iPhones do the the same thing in the FaceTime settings.

How can I stop MS Outlook Mail in the outbox from being sent?

I attempted to mail an email with a large attachment file. One of the addresses was bad. When my Outlook is running, the Mac tries to send it and shows the progress. However, when I look in my Outbox the files are not there. It does show up in the Outbox progress section but I can not delete it when it is there.
Where do these files reside?
Is there a hidden Outbox??

"Neumannium" wrote in message
news:[email protected]..
> Hello all,
>
> I'm creating VI that will gather data from a series of thermocouples
> and outputing that data to a graph as well as to a spreadsheet file.
>
> The sampling rate for each channel needs to be independent and
> variable. That is, they want to increase the sampling rate to 1/sec
> during temperature transitions, and then 1/10minutes (for example)
> when saturated.
>
> I was going to use a menu ring for the user to select the sampling
> rate (1 second to 15 minutes, with 7 different rates in between) and
> then, using a case statement, select the value of how long the 'wait
> (ms)' should wait in each loop.
>
> This kind of works with one maj
or problem. If the user currently has
> the sampling rate set to 15 minutes, then wants to switch it to 1
> second, it can take up to 14:59 for the 'wait(ms)' to finish waiting
> on the 15 minute wait before it switches to the faster sampling rate.
>
> Is there a way to stop a 'wait(ms)' in the middle of its wait cycle?
> Or is there a better way of doing this?
Instead of using the wait ms.vi you could use 'tick count' at the beginning
of the loop and then have an inner loop that keeps checking the 'tick count'
until time minus time > time to wait.
You will need to figure out how to handle the case where the millisecond
timer wraps from 2^32-1 to zero. That should not be too difficult.

How can i stop sending my mail as a zip file

new to macbook air, having problems as I seem to only send out my docs in a zip file and do not know how to send then as pages or word or text file???

Buddy seems to have a workaround posted on his blog http://www.lawryk.com/_blog/My_Adobe_Blog/post/Workaround_for_Opening_ Your_Proto_Files_in_Dreamweaver/
Plus adobe is working on a better solution

TS3899 a friend sent me an email from her suddenlink email address and now all of her email is coming to my IPhone and MAC. Help, how can i stop these unwanted emails from her bank, doctors, catalogs, etc.?

After the last IOS upgrade, a freind sent me an email from her Suddenlink account. Now I get a duplicate of everuy email she receives. This is driving me crazy plus it is an invasion of her privacy for me to be receiving all her facebook responses, banking info, medical info, catalogs, etc. I don't want the onslaught of all this email. What do I need to do to correct this? When I receive the emails, they have her address, not mine. If I send her a new email at her Suddenlink address, it comes to me and to her. Please help, this is driving me crazy.
Thanks

I'm pretty sure that the solution is in the settings of her email

How can I stop received this mail ?

You are receiving this email from Apple Support Communities. You can change your email preferences in your Apple Support Communities Profile.
TM and copyright © 2014 Apple Inc. 1 Infinite Loop, MS 96-DM. Cupertino, CA 95014.
All Rights Reserved | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Apple Support

Open your profile by clicking on your name.
Go to preferences.
Here is mine.. simply turn off the email notification. It is on by default.

How can i change the e-mail which receive a message about forgotten security questions ?

i want to change the security question but i cant remember the answers or the password for the e-mail that recieve the message about forgotten security question .

You need to ask Apple to reset your security questions; ways of contacting them include phoning AppleCare and asking for the Account Security team, clicking here and picking a method for your country, and filling out and submitting this form.
They wouldn't be security questions if they could be bypassed without Apple verifying your identity.
(104167)

How can i stop the i tune pop force quit doesn't work

hi ,
please help " how can i stop the i tune pop force quit doesn't work"

Refunds on downloaded software are virtually nonexistent.
I have had cases where I purchase software on a physical disk. If I don't like the software I can uninstall it from my computer and sell it legally. Recouping most of my loss.

The e mail address in my I tunes setting is different but when I update my apps a different e mail address come . How can I delete the e mail address which shows for updating apps

The e mail address which is in the setting of my I tune store does not show up when I install apps or update them it shows a different email address how can I delete the e mail which shows up while updating apps & switch to the one already in my settings

All apps include DRM protection that is tied to the Apple ID that was used to download the apps.
This means the apps that need an update were downloaded with the Apple ID you are being prompted for.

How can I stop auto download of attachments without tapping on them? Once I open a mail, the attachment automatically starts downloading, though it is written as "tap to download". Please help..

How can I stop auto download of attachments without tapping on them? Once I open a mail, the attachment automatically starts downloading, though it is written as "tap to download". Please help..

To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to prevent the automatic downloading of the SD version when you buy an HD show.
You can, if you wish, suggest that the ability to prevent the SD version from downloading through the iTunes feedback page. But since the SD version is needed for use on iPods and there at least at present is no mechanism for someone to download the SD version at a later time should they decide they need it, Apple may just continue to force the downloading of both versions. If they get enough feedback on the issue, though, they may figure something out.
Regards.

HELP! How can I stop iMessage hijacking mails which should be going to Gmail?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for