On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Pete Biggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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!
You are incorrect. I can send email to external accounts from within Evolution. It is this facility that I wish to use for forwarding emails. > > 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. I think you are playing with words. For the average user migrating from Outlook to Evolution it is extremely misleading. _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
