Setting Up Forwarding for Instant Direct Messages

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Evan Courtney

08 Jul, 2010 07:29 PM via web

I'm having problems setting this up with Gmail, because it is wanting to verify my boxcar email address that is it forwarding to.

Any thoughts?

I saw that Panda had posted this. which I followed; but it doesn't resolved the "verify" that Gmail wants to do.

*****Do not try to set this up in the 'Forwarding and POP/IMAP' section. This is done using filters.

The easiest, most painless method is to let Gmail do nearly all the work:
1- Go to a DM notice from Twitter
2- From the down arrow, choose 'filter messages like this'
3- The filter creation process begins, showing that it will filter something like this:
from:(twitter-dm-xxxxxxxxxx=gmail.com@postmaster.twitter.com)
4- Click 'Next Step'
5- Check 'Forward it to'
6- Enter your own unique address that is found in the boxcar app:
yyyyyy.yyyyyy@push.boxcar.io
7- Click 'Create Filter'
Done.

If you need more help, please post again, and I will try to add more details.

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