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August 16, 2005 7:04 AM Subscribe
Anybody know how G-Mail's spam filter works? I have my work account set up to automatically forward to my G-Mail account, and would like to be able to click on "this is spam" to get rid of all the crap it forwards. Trouble is that all the e-mails originate from MY work account. Am I going to end up blacklisting my own address for spamming myself?
Is your employer OK with all your work email being archived and indexed by Google? Just something to think about.
posted by shagoth at 7:36 AM on August 16, 2005
posted by shagoth at 7:36 AM on August 16, 2005
Technical answer- what you want is a redirect (which I think is what cerebus19 is getting at), not a forward. This will keep the entire original message (to's,from's,cc's,subject,content) intact. It's what I do from my home email. I'm not sure if Outlook can do this.
Biz answer- heed shagoth. Doing this would be grounds for a Big Red Mark on your HR folder at my company, and I imagine most others. It's basically copying company property off-site. TO GOOGLE'S SERVERS.
IANAL, but if your company ever wanted to get rid of you, they could probably use this as an excuse not to pay unemployment.
posted by mkultra at 8:06 AM on August 16, 2005
Biz answer- heed shagoth. Doing this would be grounds for a Big Red Mark on your HR folder at my company, and I imagine most others. It's basically copying company property off-site. TO GOOGLE'S SERVERS.
IANAL, but if your company ever wanted to get rid of you, they could probably use this as an excuse not to pay unemployment.
posted by mkultra at 8:06 AM on August 16, 2005
a "forward" is, in this case, "synonymous" with redirect, if it's a forward from your mail server. If you click "Forward" from your mail client, THEN it dumps the headers, etc, etc.
You're probably ok as long as the header (the "from" part) isn't your work email address.
posted by fishfucker at 11:49 AM on August 16, 2005
You're probably ok as long as the header (the "from" part) isn't your work email address.
posted by fishfucker at 11:49 AM on August 16, 2005
Trouble is that all the e-mails originate from MY work account.
hmm. so are you using the Outlook client to do this, as mkultra seems to suggest? Cause you shouldn't be. This should be done at the mail server level, meaning you might need to talk to IT, meaning they might say, "no we can't do that". If you have access to webmail for your company's servers, often you can set a forward there as well.
posted by fishfucker at 11:51 AM on August 16, 2005
hmm. so are you using the Outlook client to do this, as mkultra seems to suggest? Cause you shouldn't be. This should be done at the mail server level, meaning you might need to talk to IT, meaning they might say, "no we can't do that". If you have access to webmail for your company's servers, often you can set a forward there as well.
posted by fishfucker at 11:51 AM on August 16, 2005
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If it's possible to configure the forward so it just sends the message on its way without modification (which is what most e-mail forwarding services do), it should work the way you want it to.
posted by cerebus19 at 7:18 AM on August 16, 2005