Rules for Old E-mails in Webmail

March 28, 2008 1:35 PM

Forcing Outlook Web Access (aka Webmail) to execute a rule manually?

I've got a rule set up to send all my OLD e-mails (1/1/07-3/1/08) in Webmail to a new Gmail account. So far so good. But I can't get Webmail to execute the rule on the old e-mails, even if I put them in the Inbox and mark them as unread and do a Send/Receive. Webmail has no option to execute a rule manually, so what are my options?

ALSO: I don't want to sync the Webmail account with Outlook or Thunderbird--I'd like to send things directly from the Webmail interface to Gmail.

AND: I can't set up an IMAP drive, since Webmail won't allow me to do that.

posted by LGCNo6 to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

OWA can't run rules on existing mail store. At least I've never been able to. Last time I had to do this I downloaded all via rpc over http. Does your exchange host offer this? can your exchange host offer you a .pst of all your mail?

Secondly, even if you do forward all your mail to yourself the 'from' box will be from you on all emails, so getting your exchange host to give you IMAP access or rpcohttp or anything is better than this.
posted by damn dirty ape at 2:49 PM on March 28, 2008

To clarify, if you do rpcohttp then you would connect to Gmail via IMAP in Outlook and drag everything in there.
posted by damn dirty ape at 2:50 PM on March 28, 2008

Outlook Web Access is the devil. Trying to make it do almost anything beyond simply reading mails is almost always a hair-tearing exercise. Tell it nothing. Instead, configure your Gmail account to pull mails from your OWA-accessible account via POP3.
posted by flabdablet at 8:05 PM on March 28, 2008