On 10/22/10 6:29 AM, Peter Scott wrote:
I have multiple e-mail accounts and use one IMAP
> e-mail client (Tbird) to manage them all; can't be chasing down
> individual webmail accounts. However, the college Outlook account in
> question is not accessible via IMAP. So I set up the Outlook account to
> automatically forward all messages to one of my personal accounts.
> The college's Outlook server does forward all messages, but in the
> process it severely alters the messages in the following ways:
Can you create a redirection rule instead?
That excellent feature has apparently been disabled, as has any other
set up of rules and filters. Forwarding, with all the server's
alterations, is the only escape route. The Outlook software itself is
not the problem; the college's IT policies are the problem, and the
policy is the commandment, Thou shalt use Outlook webmail. The IT person
I talked to said it is done this way for security reasons: the college's
e-mail activity is isolated from the outside Internet. As far as I can
tell, you even have to be at a specially-enabled workstation in the IT
office itself to set up the automatic forwarding in the first place. I
set it up in the IT office, and since that day have not seen the
forwarding menu option in the webmail interface in any other location
either on or off campus. (Haven't been back to the IT office, as they
had minimal ability to be helpful on this issue).
- Mark
