Redirect loses some header information

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Ujjwal Deb

Hi,

Apologies if this is a repeat question - i looked thru this group but
couldn't find the solution.

I'm set up a redirect rule to redirect mail from my exchange server to
a gmail account. However, when i open the message in gmail, it looks
like the message was sent only to me - all the other recipients don't
show up. Now this is fine for most cases, but sometimes I'd like to
know who else the mail was sent to.

Is there any way to change the redirect rule to include the information
about other recipients ?

I'm using Outlook 2000.

cheers
Ujjwal
 
no, because if it's truly redirected, it would be resent to the others as
well. Can you forward as attachment instead?
 
Ujjwal Deb said:
Hi,

Apologies if this is a repeat question - i looked thru this group but
couldn't find the solution.

I'm set up a redirect rule to redirect mail from my exchange server to
a gmail account. However, when i open the message in gmail, it looks
like the message was sent only to me - all the other recipients don't
show up. Now this is fine for most cases, but sometimes I'd like to
know who else the mail was sent to.

Is there any way to change the redirect rule to include the information
about other recipients ?

I'm using Outlook 2000.
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I don't remember a "redirect" rule in Outlook 2000. I have Outlook 2002 at
home (where I am now) and Outlook 2003 at work and there is no redirect
rule. There is a forwarding rule but then you are *forwarding* a copy of
your e-mails to the other account and not simply having Outlook act as a
server (for which it was not designed) to be another hop to route your
incoming mails to yet another mail server.

When forwarding a mail, whether it be to yourself, a different recipient, or
to a spam reporting service, make sure you forward as an ATTACHMENT. If you
forward inline (i.e., the original mail is added to the body of the new
message) then all the headers are lost from the original mail. If you
forward as an attachment then the recipient gets a .msg file that they can
open to see the original mail rather than the sliced up and truncated
version if forwarded inline.

However, Outlook is still a lousy e-mail client for forwarding messages.
While it will retain Subject, To, From, and some other headers in the
forwarded attachment of the original message, it still strips out other
essential headers, like Received. You might want to rethink using Outlook
as a server to forward your mails to another account. You won't get
everything in the forwarded copy that was in the original copy.

You might also find that you are violating company policy. I sincerely
doubt that they want all inbound mails to you then sent outside their domain
and outside their control to a Gmail account. I doubt the Exchange admin
will setup an auto-forward of your inbound mails so a copy gets sent to your
Gmail account. E-mails sent to you and from you using company resources are
NOT your property. Use a different service for your personal e-mails than
for your company e-mails.
 
Deary me.

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Vanguard said:
I don't remember a "redirect" rule in Outlook 2000. I have Outlook
2002 at home (where I am now) and Outlook 2003 at work and there is
no redirect rule.
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It's there when the mailbox is on Exchange. It lies between actions
"forward it to people or distribution list as an attachment" and "have
server reply using a specific message".
 
Brian Tillman said:
It's there when the mailbox is on Exchange. It lies between actions
"forward it to people or distribution list as an attachment" and "have
server reply using a specific message".
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Thanks for the info. At work with Exchange, I only have a couple rules so
haven't grown accustomed to what additional rules might be available when
you use Exchange.

So why would Exchange be stripping out headers when it simply redirects
incoming e-mails to another account (in this case, an external SMTP server).
Hmm, has it already been converted to the proprietary format used by
Outlook? Or is it still in its raw state when sitting in the mailbox?
Presumably it would also use the DATA command to send the mail to the SMTP
server so it wouldn't care about what is in the headers (since that is
really part of the body separated by a blank line) to deliver the mail
because it would use the RCPT-TO command to the SMTP server. It's been
awhile since I used a forwarding service but I recall that the To, Cc, and
other headers were left intact.
 
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