Any Outlook WebAccess experts?

[de8212]

This is what i have to use to check my work email. The entire IT dept is stumped as to why they cannot get all incoming email to this account to forward to my personal email acct.
I can't figure it out either.

Here is a quick screencap of the Rule. Text

Does anyone know any of the settings needed for this? Does this look correct?

 

[Gooberlx2]

'cause you won't get any messages that contain nothing in the subject or from fields? Maybe put wildcards in there? Just a thought.

 

[de8212]

I thought I had read somewhere in the help files that if you leave that field blank it will send everything. Maybe I mis-read it.

What wildcards would you recommend?

 

[de8212]

Still looking for an answer to this one. Searching google led me to this page.
I have tried mine set up exactly as that example shows. Still do not get any email to the "forwarded" account.
Anyone have any ideas?

 

[alent1234]

Doing anything in OWA is a flip of the coin. It's always best to do things like this from Outlook. Where I work we don't allow POP3/IMAP4 access to Exchange either. Too much risk of serious problems.

 

[AdamSnow]

Originally posted by: alent1234
Doing anything in OWA is a flip of the coin. It's always best to do things like this from Outlook. Where I work we don't allow POP3/IMAP4 access to Exchange either. Too much risk of serious problems.

I find OWA2003 fixes a LOT of problems with OWA... very nice!

 

[de8212]

SO, is this doable or not?

 

[Nobody Else]

I'm not an OWA expert.

Having said that, I don't' know if rules produced in OWA act like client based rules, or server based rules. Some rules won't apply unless the Outlook client is running.

Assuming you are using Exchange for your mail system, your IT guys could give you a solution at the server. Basically they:

A) set up an external mailbox for your address in exchange. This will show up in the global address book (for now) and folks could send messages to this address, add it to groups, etc.

B) In Exchange Admin, they would have messages sent to your work mailbox forwarded to your home e-mail (via the external mailbox they just set up).

C) They could then hide the external mailbox from the Global Address List if you and they don't want folks seeing that box and your address.


Make sense? If not, I could dig in and explain in more detail.

 

[de8212]

Thanks for the info Nobody. It kinda makes sense but I'm really not familiar with exchange at all.
Basically I am not set up on my works "network". My physical location makse it difficult to do this and frankly I do not want access to the network. I do, however, use the email address quite often. I just connect to the internet, go to our site, and log into the Outlook Web Access through IE. I thought it would be simple to just "forward" all email to a different address. I know it was easily done it Groupwise before.
I do know they set my emial up on a machine on the network and set the forward rule actually in Outlook. That aparently did not work.
So I'm kinda at a loss. Just sitting back, waiting to see if it will ever happen.