I have a gmail account for secondary purposes (accessing Google groups, etc). I had all my gmail forwarded to my main email address. That had been working fine for years.
My ISP was messing around with the mail server on my main email address today, so I decided to temporarily stop forwarding my gmail mail, and let the email land in gmail. That worked fine.
Then I tried to reinstate the forwarding. I changed the radio button from “disable forwarding” to “enable forwarding.” Nothing happened. Messages weren’t forwarded.
I tried the option to “delete the forwarding address,” figuring I would start over.
Now, to start forwarding, you have to “add a forwarding address,” to which gmail sends an “are you sure?” message. Guess what? “Invalid forwarding address. You already have all incoming mail forwarding to this address.”
No, I *DON’T*. That’s what I’m trying to DO. But since gmail thinks I’m already using that address, it won’t let me reinstate forwarding to that address. It says I’m currently forwarding, but forwarding isn’t turned on:
Help!?
