My understanding from the meeting that we had recently about mail is that the autoforwarding would transfer. However, I cannot find where the forwarding is changed in the beta mail client. If it is implemented somewhere, could someone please point it out? If it is not, then I would be interested in the planned location for this function.
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>>> On 12/3/2008 at 8:11 AM, John Gorentz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'm wondering how to interpret this ominous-sounding item in the FAQ for the 
> new mail system:
> 
>>Can I still auto-forward to another e-mail service?
>>
>>Yes. The new e-mail service will provide an e-mail forwarding function that can 
> be used to auto-forward all incoming e-mails, including those marked as spam, 
> to another service or account. Documentation is being developed and will be 
> available by the launch date. 
> 
> That makes it sound as though autoforwarding will have to be repaired 
> manually when the new mail system goes on line -- that the new system won't 
> inherit the old's autoforwarding.   If so, that is going to make a lot of 
> work -- reminding people to do it, reminding people how to do it, helping 
> people get their stranded e-mail that arrives in the interval between the 
> switch to the new system and the repair to autoforwarding.   
> 
> And how is this consistent with the idea that the old mail system will 
> continue to be available for 6 months after the new one is turned on?  I 
> understand how that is done for the web client, but what about the mail 
> servers?  Will users get to choose the moment when their mail is handled by 
> the new server? 
> 
> Maybe this would be a good time to get more of our users to switch to using 
> the mail.msu.edu system instead of our departmental one.   Nineteen days is 
> rather short notice to accomplish something like that, though.
> 
> John Gorentz
> W.K. Kellogg Biological Station