Forwarding Mail

[Guest]

is it possible to make a rule to have e-mail in Outlook forwarded to my GMAIL
account? Can i make it specific for e-mail sent to me from one or two clients
so i will not be bombarded by all e-mail sent to my outlook account?

 

[F. H. Muffman]

is it possible to make a rule to have e-mail in Outlook forwarded to my
GMAIL
account? Can i make it specific for e-mail sent to me from one or two
clients
so i will not be bombarded by all e-mail sent to my outlook account?

Yes it is possible. Have you tried and have had problems, or are you just
asking before even looking at Tools - Rules and Alerts?

You might want to share what version of Outlook, what type of mail server,
and that might help give some answers.

 

[VanguardLH]

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is it possible to make a rule to have e-mail in Outlook forwarded to
my GMAIL
account? Can i make it specific for e-mail sent to me from one or
two clients
so i will not be bombarded by all e-mail sent to my outlook account?

Why would you want e-mails delivered to the original account to then
waste time to get yanked down to your local e-mail client only to use
a rule therein to shove it back out to your Gmail account and then
yank it a second time from there? You already have the e-mail so
there would be no reason to push it back out to a different account
only to yank it back again.

Go into Gmail's settings and add a POP3 account to have Gmail
automatically do the yanking from the original account in the first
place. Then you only yank once from Gmail to get the e-mail from just
that one account.

 

[Guest]

Have looked at Tools and cant figure it out. Thats why I am asking. So far I
have not been able to pull it off.

 

[Guest]

I only have 2 clients i need e-mail from not all of them. the reason is that
these 2 clients are 80% of my business. i dont need everything from all
clients. its a different and difficult situation where i have to use my
clients e-mail for thier business. i use gmail for everything else

 

[F. H. Muffman]

Have looked at Tools and cant figure it out. Thats why I am asking. So far
I
have not been able to pull it off.

What haven't you figured out?
Have you created a rule and it isn't working?
Are you not even sure where to create a rule?
What type of mail server are you working with, Exchange, POP/IMAP, Hotmail
or gmail?

I'm not trying to be rude, there's just lots of possibilities and I don't
want to write out the entire set of steps one would have to do to create a
rule, when there's lots of caveats here and there.

 

[VanguardLH]

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Clark




I only have 2 clients i need e-mail from not all of them. the reason
is that
these 2 clients are 80% of my business. i dont need everything from
all
clients. its a different and difficult situation where i have to use
my
clients e-mail for thier business. i use gmail for everything else

Still not making any sense. What you asked for was:

1. Mail goes to pop.theirdomain.tld.
2. You yank in the mail from pop.theirdomain.tld using Outlook.
3. A rule in Outlook forwards that mail out to Gmail.
4. You then yank or read the mail at Gmail.

All of which requires Outlook to be running all the time to act as a
poor mail server to forward your mails from one account to your Gmail
account. Instead, configure Gmail to yank your mails from
pop.theirdomain.tld so those mails show up in your Gmail account (and
do NOT configure an account in your e-mail client to yank from
pop.theirdomain.tld). You have the mail server to the yanking
(forwarding) for you. Then it becomes very simple because all you
have to do is:

1. You yank or read the mail at Gmail.

Outlook isn't involved. Outlook doesn't have to be left continously
running so it can run its rule. You don't increase bandwidth by 3
times (yank the mail, forward the mail, yank the mail again). Rather
than go through the 4 steps that delay when you get to read your
mails, just do the 1 step by already having your mails all yanked into
your Gmail account. Simple.

The only reason why the above won't work is if the source accounts
(whose mails you want to get into your Gmail account) are not POP3
accounts. You never mentioned WHAT type of e-mail accounts you are
trying to forward to your Gmail account. If you are using your
employer's Exchange server, you should NOT be forwarding their
business mails outside their domain to save into a Gmail account. ALL
MAILS you receive through their Exchange server are *their* property.
It is their resource that you are permitted to use for business
purposes only. Talk to their mail admin or IT group and you will find
that you are likely violating their terms of use (mail and Internet)
by resending their business mails to an unknown, uncontrollable, and
rather public mail service. If the source accounts are Hotmail
accounts, well, business don't use those so it is a non-issue and you
are really only talking about your own personal mails. If you are
talking about IMAP4 accounts then you can't use Gmail to automatically
yank mails from there unless they provide both IMAP4 and POP3
interfaces to your same mailbox.