Email Options

[Guest Sammy]

Is it possible to have all incoming mail of selected POP accounts to be copied to another POP account's mailbox?

 

We would need it for :

1. Archiving purposes, where incoming mail would be copied to another mailbox serviced by *****.

2. For pager/sms notification of emails received, where incoming mail would be copied to our paging and cellphone service providers.

[Lianna]

Sammy,

 

Sure you can do this. It takes a bit of creative manipulation, but I did the same thing.

 

First, remove the POP3 account that is to get forwarded...this is necessary for the forward to multiple recipients to work correctly.

Create a new pop3 account this is to receive the forward.

Set up a Forwarder to send that (old pop3 mailbox name) to the the new address.

Set up another Forwarder to send that (old pop3 mailbox name) to the SM pager address.

 

Example. I have an account mymail@**** that I want delivered to my pager and a pop3 mailbox.

First, I remove the mymail mail account.

Then, I create another mail account, mymail2.

Then I create a Forwarder for mymail@**** forwarding to mymail2@****

Then I create a Forwarder for mymail@**** forwarding to mypagernumber@pagerhost.com

 

That should do it.

Try it out on a non-critical email address first (or a made up one). The pop3 account settings in your pop3 client will need to be changed to collect the mail from the mymail2 account.

 

Also, when creating the forward, you can enter both recipient addresses in at the same time by using a comma without spaces:

Forward mymail@**** to "mymail2@****,mypagernumber@pagerhost.com" (without quotes).

 

Lianna

[Guest Sammy]

Thanx Lianna for the quick creative thinking. I will try that when I open my account with *****.

[Lianna]

You're welcome. I had a similar situation. My previous host provided a thing called "Mail Groups" whereby all mail sent to one address was automatically distributed to all addresses in the Mail Group. When I got here and there was no Mail Group option, we had to come up with a way to maintain the effect. This did the trick. (Thanks to the guys that helped me figure it out!)

 

Come on over to SNH! You'll love it!

 

 

Lianna