I frequently get emails to my work address that should really have gone to my home address (gmail). I can forward these emails, but then they show up in my gmail account as a FW and if I reply, I have to mess with the addresses and delete the FW info, etc.
PINE on Unix has a “bounce” command to forward an email to another email address – it appears to the new recipient (the address you bounce it to) as if it was originally addressed to them.
Is there a way to write a little function on my lotus notes client so that I can bounce individual emails to my gmail account?
Unfortunately, I’m not code savvy, so maybe another person who comes across this can help, but I do know of an easy way to perform what you are looking for. You can create a Mail Rule to send all mail to your Gmail account so you have it in Notes and in your Gmail account. The messages you receive in Gmail will appear as though they were sent from the User themself. Gmail allows for large Mail Files as well so you won’t really run out of space soon and you can periodically delete the mail in your Mail File on Gmail as well to keep it in check.
The Mail Rule is easy to set up - see screen shot below:
Thanks for the tip. However, I would prefer not to have my work email in my gmail – I get a LOT of mail at work. I’m trying to keep my two worlds as separate as possible.
Regarding the comment that “The messages you receive in Gmail will appear as though they were sent from the User themself”…
There is a server option that controls this. The messages may:
Appear as though the original sender sent them
Appear as though YOU sent them
Appear as though they were sent from an email address created by prepending “nobounce” to the front of YOUR internet email address.
There are complex issues at play with this option. Option 1) causes the message to essentially have the from address forged (because your email server is NOT the “proper” server for the original sender’s email…that can cause the message to be rejected as SPAM). Plus with option 1, any problems sending the message to your Gmail account will bounce it back to the original sender (which is confusing to them). Option 2 can result in an infinite email loop (if the message bounces back to you & you keep forwarding the bounce). Option 3 is actually the safest general option…