On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 09:45 +0000, Vatachino wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 10:03 -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > >> On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 10:26 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> > Can you explain how mail gets to external destinations, such as this > >> > list, if a) your firewall blocks external SMTP from your machine, and > >> > b) Exchange doesn't "offer" SMTP? (I'm not sure what you mean by > >> > "offer"). > >> > >> If you have an Exchange account, you can send email that way, through > >> the Exchange OWA interface, just the same way you get mail. This goes > >> directly to the Exchange server over HTTP, just as if you'd entered the > >> email into your browser, and the Exchange server sends it out over SNMP > >> for you. It does NOT require a local MTA on your system. > > > > I thought that might be it but since I've never had to use Exchange I > > wasn't sure. > > > > So in fact the OP's problem is that he needs something he can call from > > a Shell that will send mail through Exchange OWA. I have nothing to > > suggest here. > > I have been looking into www.openchange.org. openchangeclient > --sendmail very nearly does what I want (after I wrote 20 lines or so > of perl wrapper), except that at the recipient (gmail) end, the > original message ends up as a winmail.dat attachment. > > However this is a workaround not a solution. This functionality is > built into Microsoft Outlook as a native feature so that non-technical > users (which surely are the target audience for Evolution?) can use it > without having to write scripts. Given the frequency with which the > question about automatically forwarding mail is asked on the Ubuntu > forums, and on this list, this is surely a candidate for a built-in > feature. > > Ideally what I need is an update to Evolution itself so that the > ability to forward an email is available under the message filters.
The way to register your interest in having this is to file an item on Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org. File it under Evolution as a desired feature. That doesn't guarantee anything, but at least it will be recorded and some developer might take it up. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
