Comments on: Email forwarding

Question: Email forwarding

jason9009 — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:15:30 -0800

I work at a university .. my university's web mail console pretty much stinks .. i would like to create a server-side filter to have my email automatically forwarded to my gmail account. Problem is that my university's control panel doesn't allow me to do this. Is there another way ?

By: ori

ori — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:24:08 -0800

What university do you go to? There's no easy way to do this unless your university fascilitates this. But (as is the case with my university) email-forwarding setups are occasionally obscure. The overwhelming majority of universities do offer mail forwarding as a way of weaning their alumni from their student mailbox. If you post the name of your university, I could help you look through the documentation.

By: ursus_comiter

ursus_comiter — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:46:56 -0800

Does your uni do email via a unix machine that users have command line access to? If so, you could create a .forward file.

By: Freen

Freen — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 23:17:08 -0800

As an aside, if you have access to an imap server or a pop server there are other possible solutions. I'd need a bit more info about what kind of email service your university provides. Can you connect to the server with a email program, like outlook or thunderbird?

By: craniac

craniac — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:34:36 -0800

yeah, pop3 or imap would be my suggestion as well. Or if you were super cool, you could use the DOM class in PHP to write a scraping program, as the Kottke describes today on his weblog.

/I am not super cool.

p.s. I switched to gmail from our crappy university webmail, and just slowly taught people my new address.

By: exhilaration

exhilaration — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:35:22 -0800

I just want to second the .forward suggestion. Neither my Rutgers nor NJIT accounts have any apparent way to forward e-mail. You need to find out if you can telnet/SSH into your account and create a .forward file. It worked perfectly for me.