On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 16:49 +0000, Vatachino wrote: > Hi list, > > > I would like to use Evolution to forward selected email from a > Microsoft Exchange server to a separate (gmail) account. > > This issue has been raised several times on this list and elsewhere (a > Google search gets over 200 hits on the archive of this mailing list). > The question is invariably answered by suggesting the use of a script, > and sendmail or mutt as a final delivery agent. > > In my case this is impossible, because there is no access to external > SMTP (firewalled), and the Exchange server does not offer SMTP either. > The only way I have found of sending an outgoing email is using the > Exchange server itself, using the Evolution backend. > If there is no access to SMTP, then you are going to have problems getting anything to send any messages to an external account!
> Am I missing something? Yes: an SMTP server! > > If not, could I suggest that the sentence describing the filters on > http://projects.gnome.org//evolution/features.shtml is changed, > because it describes a feature which does not exist. I installed > Evolution after reading that sentence specifically because I wanted to > do what it says - to automatically send a copy to another person. It doesn't say that it "automatically" sends a copy. It says, as an example, that filters can be used to send a message, and it does that using an external script. P. _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
