Forward email from outlook to gmail

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Joe

I want outlook 2002 forward my email to my gmail account. I already set up
the rule and it is forwarding my email just fine... But only when i'm signed
in to outlook. Is it possible to have email forwarded when i'm not signed in
to oulook?
 
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Brian Tillman

Joe said:
I want outlook 2002 forward my email to my gmail account. I already
set up the rule and it is forwarding my email just fine... But only
when i'm signed in to outlook. Is it possible to have email
forwarded when i'm not signed in to oulook?

What server are you using for your Outlook account? Why not see if the
server itself supports autoforwarding and then Outlook won't be involved at
all?
 
J

Joe

It's a company server... I'll check with our IT guy and see if he can set me
up. Thats a great idea, thanks!
 
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VanguardLH

in message
I want outlook 2002 forward my email to my gmail account. I already
set up
the rule and it is forwarding my email just fine... But only when
i'm signed
in to outlook. Is it possible to have email forwarded when i'm not
signed in
to oulook?


Obviously a program can only do any action when it is running. You
expect a program that is not running to do something?

And why are you trying to use Outlook as a poor-grade and unstable
mail server to do the forwarding? Forwarding should be performed up
on the mail server. Check if your e-mail provider includes a
forwarding option for your account with them. If not, and rather than
forward the e-mails, why not configure to yank those e-mails? Gmail
can yank e-mails from POP3 accounts. So if you can't use forwarding,
you can still have Gmail yank them from your other POP3 accounts so
they show up in your Gmail account.

Use a server-side solution to rerouting your e-mails. Client side
solutions are unreliable: you need to define a rule, the rule needs to
work all the time for all applicable e-mails, you need to keep your
e-mail client running in which the rule is defined, you need to keep
your operating system running so the e-mail program is constantly
running, you have to double the bandwidth for e-mails to your host (to
retrieve them and then to push them back out), and you are relying on
the stability of the e-mail program to remain running (Outlook will
remain running constantly okay when using Exchange but too often goes
unresponsive when using SMTP).
 
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VanguardLH

in message
It's a company server... I'll check with our IT guy and see if he
can set me
up. Thats a great idea, thanks!


Then it is very likely that you are violating e-mail policies at your
company. E-mails sent to the company are probably not to be stored on
an external mail host over which the company has no control. Many
company-related e-mails are private. They also want to manage those
e-mails. Remember that you are using THEIR property and THEIR
resources, not your own so rerouting company e-mails to your personal
account is likely a no-no at your company. It is tantamount to
connecting another host into their network without their permission,
also a no-no, because you are chaining in a mail host that isn't
theirs.
 

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