Forward to another email address when offline

[kristie]

Hi,

I have an email address I use through outlook but I have also set it up to
forward every email received to my gmail account, in case I am away from the
computer or travelling on short trips (when I probably won't take my laptop),
but from what I can see, outlook only picks up new messages (and therefore
only forwards them on) when the computer is switched on and connected to the
internet.

Later this week I am going to Spain and won't take my laptop. Is there some
setting I have missed that I use to have outlook forward my messages even
when the computer is off???

 

[TedMi]

If your computer is off and Outlook is not running, then Outlook has no way
of knowing that a message has come in and needs to be forwarded. You need to
check whether your incoming e-mail server has a forwarding option, and set
it up on that end. Check with your ISP.
-TedMi

 

[VanguardLH]

Hi,

I have an email address I use through outlook but I have also set it up to
forward every email received to my gmail account, in case I am away from the
computer or travelling on short trips (when I probably won't take my laptop),
but from what I can see, outlook only picks up new messages (and therefore
only forwards them on) when the computer is switched on and connected to the
internet.

Either configure your receiving account (the first one) to forward
*copies* of your e-mails to your second account (Gmail), or configure
Gmail to yank e-mails from your first account. Which you use depends on
whether or not your first account can forward copies. If it can, it is
preferable than yanking them using Gmail.

Gmail's feature to yank from other e-mail accounts (which requires those
other accounts allow POP access) will increase its poll interval when no
new e-mails are received. Gmail will start at around 3 minutes for its
mail poll of the other accounts. If no new items are found in the other
accounts, Gmail will increase its poll interval. With each successive
mail poll that is empty, Gmail continues to increase the poll interval.
It will increase the poll interval up to an hour. So you be expecting
an e-mail but not receive it at Gmail until an hour later. Once Gmail
finds a new item, the mail poll interval resets and starts again at its
minimum value and gradually increases with successive empty polls.

Forwarding a copy of new e-mails would work as soon as the new e-mail
arrives at your account. So using forwarding in your first account
would mean those e-mails would be available almost immediately at your
Gmail account. Be careful since the forwarding service at your first
account may only forward your new e-mails (so they would no longer be
available at your first account) rather than forward a *copy* of them
(so a copy is available at both your first and Gmail accounts).

Doesn't your first account include a webmail client to access your
e-mail account there by using a web browser? Why do you need to
forward/yank your e-mails anywhere else?