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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. -- +-------------------------------------------+ | Michael Surato | | College of Arts and Letters | | Michigan State University | | 320 Linton Hall | | East Lansing, MI 48824 | | Voice: (517) 353-0778 Fax: (517) 355-0159 | +-------------------------------------------+ >>> 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