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I want outlook 2002 forward my email to my gmail account. I already
set up
the rule and it is forwarding my email just fine... But only when
i'm signed
in to outlook. Is it possible to have email forwarded when i'm not
signed in
to oulook?
Obviously a program can only do any action when it is running. You
expect a program that is not running to do something?
And why are you trying to use Outlook as a poor-grade and unstable
mail server to do the forwarding? Forwarding should be performed up
on the mail server. Check if your e-mail provider includes a
forwarding option for your account with them. If not, and rather than
forward the e-mails, why not configure to yank those e-mails? Gmail
can yank e-mails from POP3 accounts. So if you can't use forwarding,
you can still have Gmail yank them from your other POP3 accounts so
they show up in your Gmail account.
Use a server-side solution to rerouting your e-mails. Client side
solutions are unreliable: you need to define a rule, the rule needs to
work all the time for all applicable e-mails, you need to keep your
e-mail client running in which the rule is defined, you need to keep
your operating system running so the e-mail program is constantly
running, you have to double the bandwidth for e-mails to your host (to
retrieve them and then to push them back out), and you are relying on
the stability of the e-mail program to remain running (Outlook will
remain running constantly okay when using Exchange but too often goes
unresponsive when using SMTP).
