Thursday, January 15, 2004

NOVELL: Don't Forward to Yourself, Delegate (GroupWise Cool Solutions): "Astute reader, Jay Russel read last week’s tip about creating a rule to forward your mail to your home e-mail address, and stepped up to the plate, going us one better: “Nicely done . . . only thing I'd point out is that there's an even cooler Cool Solution. Using Forward will cause the mail to appear to be from 'yourself' (in the From box), thereby making replies a little squirrely since it now points back to the mail account that did the forwarding. Instead, create a rule that delegates your mail to your home address. Delegate preserves the original sender’s name in the From box. We use it extensively, and we have a number of talented Systems Engineer that need their e-mail forwarded to other mail accounts. Works beautifully.” You’re right, Russ, your solution is cooler than ours. Never die.
So, that being said, here are the new steps:
1. Click Tools, Rules, New.
2. Name the Rule (something like Send Everything to my House).
3. Click New Item, and check the Received box.
4. Click the Item Types you want to see. You might just want to have the e-mail sent. Or maybe you need all the appointments too. You choose.
5. Click Add Action, Delegate.
6. Fill in your home e-mail address.
7. Click OK, Save, Close."

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