ICloud Mail Forwarding

I set my iCloud mail preferences to forward my me.com mail to my gmail account. This auto-forwarding is not working. I missed several messages from my wife, and verified this with test messages. (Sent from a third account to me.com for forwarding to gmail.)
All these messages did appear in my iCloud mail. When I forwarded one of them manually to my gmail account, that worked.
Anybody else had this experience, and what did you do about it?
Thanks

I have the exact same problem. I also tried adding a rule to forward messages from my icloud account. Same result.

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The problem with mail is it uses a huge amount of broadband. Also takes up a lot of disk space. Thats why I use icloud mail. On both my imac and laptop I would be using double the broadband.
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Hi,
I've setup an automatic mail forwarding through icloud.com mail application, in preferences.
At first, it worked.
A few days later it doesn't.
I've tryed to disable, enable, re-type the destination email address (gmail), nothing works : mails won't be forwarded, but they get deleted (I checked the option, this one works).
I've contacted Apple Support Express Lane, who reset my preferences on the server (it changed nothing to the preferences I see) : there is no result on this one either.
When I forward an email manually to the same gmail address : it works.
Any of you having the same issue ?

Update. It appears that auto forwarding works except for emails sent from a gmail account associated with the "forward to" address. If I send from my comcast account it works, but if I send from my gmail account, using the gmail or comcast address, it doesn't. On the plus side, mail sent from other gmail accounts apeears to work. So other than for testing purposes, this may not be a big deal.

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Recently I have completely switched over to iCloud mail for sending and receiving all mails. There were two problems that I found. These are as follows:
1. I am forwarding all the mails from my gmail, ymail and outlook.com account to iCloud.com account. But some of the messages don't reach (or probably are automatically deleted from) my iCloud mailbox. I have checked the junk email folder also. They are not there. Some of these emails like the promotional mails I have subscribed to and my Internet bill are not really spam. Still somehow they don't get into my iCloud mailbox despite my yahoo account forwarding them. Proof that the yahoo account is forwarding them is that all those emails were deleted from my yahoo account automatically after being forwarded.
Is there a way to correct this unwanted behavior of iCloud mail. I want all the mails to appear and then I'll decide what is junk and what should be deleted.
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Please help me. The first problem particularly is very annoying, please help.

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These emails are not stored on your computer.
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So the best method is to synchronize the folder to get emails onto your computer, then go into 'offline' mode so that Thunderbird cannot connect with server.
Then move those emails into suitable folders in Local Folders.
The 'Local Folder' folders will be stored on your computer and will not be efected by the IMAP mail account even when you later select to remove it.
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* https://freeshell.de//~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html
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I've set up my Gmail account to auto forward messages to iCloud Mail but message are not being received. Can anyone help?

I've set up my Gmail account to auto forward messages to iCloud Mail but message are not being received in iCloud Mail.
Can anyone help?

Try this out... this worked like a charm:
*On a desktop PC, log into your gmail account.
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*Under "Change Account Settings", click "Other Goole Account Settings"
*Along the left, click "Security"
*Under 2-step verification, click "Manage your application specific passwords"
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*It will generate a random password for you... you will need this password Once in your iPad....
Now...
*Go to your iPhone Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars>Add Account>Google
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It should work from there, if not follow what is below!
*On a desktop PC, log into your gmail account.
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*Along the left, click "Security"
*Under 2-step verification, click "Manage your application specific passwords"
*It will ask for your usual gmail account password and take you to a page that says "
Authorized Access to your Google Account
*You will see a box to type in something (I just typed in iPad) then click "Generate Password"
*It will generate a random password for you... you will need this password THREE TIMES in your phone or ipad....
Now...
*Go to your iPhone Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars>Add Account>Other>add mail account
*Type in your name, your usual gmail email address and for the password, type in that random one generated on your PC
*Next
Incoming Mail Server:
Host Name: imap.gmail.com
User name: (your gmail email address)
Password: TYPE IN THAT RANDOM PASSWORD AGAIN
Outgoing Mail Server:
Host name: smtp.gmal.com
User name (your gmail email address)
Password: TYPE IN THAT RANDOM PASSWORD AGAIN
Done
And allll the emails came rushing in Hope this works for you!

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Here's what I learned throughout this and I will post a discussion in a separate thread for the rest of the folk out there.
MYTHS AND FACTS RE: iCLOUD MAIL SERVER DROPOUT- WHAT I'VE LEARNED
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CHECK THESE FORUMS as a first step measure to work out if the problem seems to be just you and your account, or a wider community. Particularly before you make any major change to your email accounts, passwords, computers or phones.
If you get an issue in the next week or so (and keep in mind for the future) Error Message: "MY NAME" returned the error "[AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed." Your username/password or security settings may be incorrect. Would you like to try re-entering your password?" and this happens multiple times when you know the password is correct, then odds are that the server is down and you are best to wait it out. Try checking your mail via iCloud to test. If you can send it through there, odds are that the glitch has nothing to do with your password or issues with your account and rather than make changes, try and wait it out.
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Become friends with your tech guy rather than enemies. If you don't feel like your tech guy knows what he's talking about, politely request to speak to a supervisor. I would be having a nervous breakdown right now (small business owner, lost two days of billable hours so I am financially behind) if I didn't have a good relationship with the guy that has been helping me. We are a good team, with me updating him with the information, via these forums, to find a proper solution to the issue and to rectify the wrong information I was given by the previous Apple tech guy I spoke to.
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Tried port 465 but it wouldn't work.
Went to our help desk and here's the reply I got (paraphrased slightly cuz the person at the help desk was trying hard to be helpful and I don't want to get him/her in trouble):
I presented this question to the university team and then waited for a long time to get the following reply:
we do not allow relay from non-university IP addresses.
port 25 for smtp is a standard worldwide.
For the most part, that went right over my head and didn’t answer anything, but I hope it means something to you.
I called him to get more clarification, but all I really got out of it was that, if you don’t use exchange which is secure via port 443, then your other option is to use smtp. And then he said something about how relay, iron ports, and authenticated accounts work together to make it secure. I know it makes me sound a lot more inept than I am, but all that made little sense to me. What I gather, is… that by selecting SSL when configuring your client, it makes it so that your login info and mail content is safe. Sorry, I can’t provide a more cohesive and comprehensive explanation, but I think the bottom line is that they have combined a non-secure protocol with other stuff to make it secure.
So, I'm hoping that checking SSL and using port 25 somehow solves the problem to the satisfaction of our IT professionals at the University ...
Again, thanks for taking the time to educate the rest of us!

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The tl;dr version of my question: is there anything I can do from an end-user perspective to improve the odds that my iCloud mail messages will be properly delivered to others, or incoming mail properly received by me? I like iCloud, but this is something I never worried about with Gmail, though I would prefer to stay with a single service for personal information management (i.e., iCloud) as opposed to going to Gmail or Outlook.com for mail/contacts/calendars.
The slightly longer version:
I was formerly a Gmail user for many years. All of my hardware is Apple made, so iCloud makes sense, including for mail. I have multiple third-party email accounts forwarding to my @icloud.com address.
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The recipients in question had nothing to gain from lying and playing the "I never got the email" card. The destination addresses to which I was sending these messages were both institutional Exchange accounts (three delivered to spam, one not delivered at all) or Gmail accounts (one, with the recipient subsequently receiving my original message without issue when I forwarded it from my own separate Exchange account).
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