Forwarding rule not forwarding all e-mail

[Guest]

I have a very simple rule set up in Outlook 2000 that is supposed to forward
all mail to two internal e-mail accounts.

This works with no problem for new messages and replies to sent messages,
but does not work with return confirmations or notifications of non-delivery.


These messages land on the host machine just fine, but are not forwarded.

Any ideas?

thanks... R4

 

[Noel All]

That's how it works, it will only send the 1 reply, you would have to
restart Outlook to clear its cached list of who its has replied to. Are you
in an Exchange environment.

 

[Guest]

Thank you for the reply.

We are not in an Exchange environment.

I'm not sure I fully understand your reply...

The received messages that are not being forwarded will generally be the
first message received from an e-mail address, whether it be a confirmation
of the sent message being read or a notification of an invalid address from
the e-mail server a message was sent to.

There are also instances where a confirmation of the sent message will
arrive and not be forwarded, followed by a response to the same message that
will be forwarded.

Am I making any sense here? I just don't understand why setting a rule to
forward ALL messages does not forward ALL messages but is selective at only
forwarding messages sent manually and not automated replys.

Still scratching my head and preparing to bang head on desk.

R4

 

[Noel All]

I dont blame you for not understanding my answer because I totally misread
your post (sorry), I tried it here and I get everything to Forward or
redirect including Delivery receipts but not Read receipts but there isn't
any difference in the Delivery or Read Receipt that I can tell - so its odd.
As you haven't got Exchange is there any way that your Email Host can apply
a Forwarder on the Account.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for confirming that I wasn't going entirely bonkers for not
understanding your reply. The reason that I even have this silly problem is
that the powers that be, where I work, keep changing who the incoming
messages on this particular e-mail address get forwarded to. There was
always a delay when asking our e-mail host to change this (which was, of
course, unacceptable to management) so I inherited the responsibility of
finding a way to do this internally.

I don't see why Read: messages won't forward either. That's why I posted,
to see if anyone else has experienced this problem.

I have even tried setting up an additional rule to explicitly forward
messages with Read: in the subject line with no success. It must have
something to do with the fact that these messages are automatically
generated, but for the life of me, I can't see what difference that should
make.

Why, oh why can't software do what it is advertised to do?

R4

 

[Noel All]

Cannot you not set the mailbox so that it leaves a copy of the message on
the server when polled and then have the users access the mailbox directly.

 

[Guest]

Unfortunately, our e-mail provided will not allow messages to be left on
their server. The email server is also not on-site so we have no control
over it.
I simply have one of our file servers polling through a local copy of
Outlook and (occasionally) forwarding messages.

Good try though!

I guess I'll have to investigate alternate e-mail programs.

R4