Push Gmail on Iphone ios 7 -- best solution

Or you could just use the Gmail app.

Or just dump Gmail completely and go with icloud.

No it isn't 26 of the 30 people who signed up for Google + dumped it almost immediately.

Wasn't hard for me. I just deleted my account. I don't need any google account.

Or you could just use the Suzumail app 🙂. but paid $0.99.

Works like a charm! Thanks Justin.

I have also switched to outlook as a conduit for my gmail. Push works great to my IOS devices and there is also the great benefit of very easy integration with Outlook 2013 on my windows PC. The only small glitch i have found is when an email is forwarded from gmail into the outlook inbox, if I reply-all, it adds my own gmail address to the reply, which then is auto-forwarded back to the outlook inbox when I send it. Pretty sure this is because I'm sending from the outlook account, but the gmail address was the original recipient. Minor hassle but seems worth it given all the other benefits. Any ideas on a solution?

I ran the outlook tool to import all my historical email from gmail into my outlook.com account. It worked quite well, but one question. In addition to recreating folders that lined up with my gmail labels, it also created an outlook "category" with the same name as my gmail address. And it populated that category (at least I think so) with every email from my gmail account. I think this may essentially be the all-mail from gmail, but does anyone know what's going on with this? I'm not at all familiar with outlook categories. I actually had two gmail accounts, imported them both, and it created two categories, one for each gmail address. If I just delete those categories, will it affect the way my emails appear and the folders that were created? The categories only appear when I'm on line at the outlook.com site. No sign of them in the iOS devices or when using Outlook 2013.

Also, per the original instructions above, what does step 4 do?

"4. click right top gear – More mail settings – Writing email – Reply-to address – Select your Gmail"

Thanks -- as long at the outlook "send from" feature is working I think that is already covered. When I compose an email from my outlook account, it arrives as if it had been sent from my gmail, which is exactly what I want. I have found one other minor hitch though. If I recieve an e-mail directly to my outlook account (not planning to use that address, but in case I do), then when I reply from my IOS device, it seems to ignore outlook's "send from" feature and the e-mail goes out with my outlook address. Any solution to that? Is that what step 4 will fix?

If I'm using outlook.com, the reply goes out as if it were sent from my gmail account.

Excellent method, this issue was driving me crazy, thanks!

Just wanted to ask you is there any way to disable the email forwarding receipt that is received by the sender, I sometimes get error messages where my mailbox is trying to send receipts to automated email messages.

Thanks again.