In recent months, the ITV catch up TV service has started to frequently send an email message to verify a login. The trouble is that it goes to my email account but it is often Jane who wants to watch it and at times when I’m not able to quickly send on the message (for example, if I’m out at band a rehearsal). I will still want to log in from time to time but I don’t think you can set two email addresses on one account and, if we set up a new, shared mailbox, we’d both have to monitor it.

Tonight it struck me that I could add another filter to my incoming Gmail to forward a copy of the ITV ones across to Jane’s account. It did take a few steps to set up. First I had to put her address into the forwarding settings on my account (and verify that I was making the request). Next she had to verify that she wanted to receive the messages. There seemed to be a delay in that updating on my account so we went through that step twice. Finally, I verified that default forwarding was off (Jane doesn’t need all my emails) and set up the filter.

A little testing (a dummy message sent from another account but using the subject line I am filtering on) seems to have worked so, after a little palaver, I hope that wrinkle is now ironed out and we can both log in whenever we want.