dig139 said:
I have a university email address that forwards my emails to my
standard or
alternate isp that I use when traveling. But mail sent to that
address is
not recognized as being me when I use outlook and reply to all. How
can I
set up my outlook accounts so that I am not sending an email to my
university
email which then forwards to me a copy of the sent mail? Now I have
to
delete that address in the to box.
Thanks for any assistance
That's the problem with using a simplistic forwarding service. The
headers will be the original headers that the forwarding mail host got
when the mail arrived, and those are the same headers that your e-mail
client will see when you retrieve from the receiving mail host (the one
to which are forwarded the inbound mails). Your e-mail address in the
To header is not the one for your receiving mail host account but the
receiving mail host account is obviously the only account that Outlook
will know about. As far as Outlook is concerned, the e-mail was NEVER
sent to you because the account to which it connects is not the account
to which the e-mail was originally sent.
I suppose you could try creating a rule that would delete any mails that
include your forwarding e-mail address in the To header AND had your
receiving e-mail address in the From header. That is, the rule would
see that you (at your receiving account) sent a mail to bogus you (at
the forwarding account). You won't stop from sending yourself a copy of
the e-mail to which you replied (i.e., your forwarding mail account will
still be listed in the To header in the reply message and a mail will
get sent there which then gets forwarded to your receiving mail account)
but you'll delete it when it arrives back in Outlook. You reply to all,
it includes your forwarding e-mail address, the forwarding mail host
gets the message and forwards it to your receiving mail host, you yank
that copy of your reply from your receiving mail host using Outlook, and
the rule in Outlook deletes that message. If your forwarding mail
service lets you define server-side rules then you could define that
rule at the forwarding mail server rather than do it in Outlook.
However, if you ever send yourself any test mails through your
forwarding account then those will also get deleted. I rarely send
mails to myself.
