Email going every which direction.....

I have one account where the email isn't kept on the nethosted servers but is delivered to two external email accounts. This was achieved by using two forwarding addresses for the same email address and works great.

In another account, the email is stored on the nethosted server and is downloaded into outlook every day or so. I have been requested to send a copy of this email to a gmail account but I'm not sure the best way to do it.

If I set up gmail to get the emails by pop3 and tell it to leave a copy on the server then outlook will pick up later. However, if outlook gets to the email first, gmail won't see it so that won't work.

I'm thinking that the best way is to forward all the email to gmail and then get outlook to download from there. Is there a better way?

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 5684

If you set the email address up to forward to gmail then this would happen instantly, so it wouldn't matter when Outlook downloads the email as the mail would have already been forwarded to gmail. Perhaps I've missed the issue?

Andrew

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:11 pm Post subject:

I was thinking of leaving the emails on the nethosted server so outlook got them from there. Its probably best to forward them to gmail and then for outlook to get them there. I'll have a go at setting this up now.

edit - Done. Seems to work ok.

NetHosted Customer Joined: 16 Dec 2006 Posts: 67

I have set some of my customers up with what you seem to want to do. They have a standard mailbox (on Nethosted) where they can use a pop3 client (such as Outlook, Thunderbird, etc) and I set up forwarding for the user to two "outside" addresses.

Mail coming in is immediately forwarded to the external addresses, and the mail goes into the Nethosted mailbox to be collected by pop3.

Isn't that what you wanted to do?

Regards
David

Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 9:32 am Post subject:

Yep, that was what I was looking to do. How do you set up the forwarding whilst also leaving the original email on nethosted?

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 5684

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