Specific Email Requirement

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Bryan Anderson

I am looking for a small, free email client that I can run on
a dektop here that will filter incoming email and redirect it
to other addresses.

Specifically, I want the email to be redirected with all the
original headers intact, so that it still looks like it is
from the original. Most email clients I have tried will forward
email to another address from a filter, but always change the
from: and reply-to: headers.

Any help would be great,
 
Bryan Anderson said:
I am looking for a small, free email client that I can run on
a dektop here that will filter incoming email and redirect it
to other addresses.

Specifically, I want the email to be redirected with all the
original headers intact, so that it still looks like it is
from the original. Most email clients I have tried will forward
email to another address from a filter, but always change the
from: and reply-to: headers.

Any help would be great,
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http://www.eudora.com/ (adware last I tried it) used to have the ability to
redirect e-mail instead of forwarding it. I'm not sure if it has mail rules
to do this automatically though.

Karen
http://scootgirl.com/
 
Bryan said:
I am looking for a small, free email client that I can run on
a dektop here that will filter incoming email and redirect it
to other addresses.

Specifically, I want the email to be redirected with all the
original headers intact, so that it still looks like it is
from the original. Most email clients I have tried will forward
email to another address from a filter, but always change the
from: and reply-to: headers.

Any help would be great,
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IIRC you can do this with Clara's online mail filters.

http://post-office.clara.net/

And you can have loads of Clara addies of the form:

Me at bryan dot clara dot co dot uk

And you could filter and redirect on the 'to' field

But you probably want something more general...
 
http://www.eudora.com/ (adware last I tried it) used to have the ability to
redirect e-mail instead of forwarding it. I'm not sure if it has mail rules
to do this automatically though.
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There is a free, no ad version, a sponsored (ads) and a pay version. The
sponsored version may be slightly crippled but it is very useable as is the
free one.

There is a Turbo Redirect option in all 3.
 
http://www.eudora.com/
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I am trying this now - I have tried Eudora before, a while back, but
soon got rid of it because I hated it as an email client. However, I
don't have to use it all the time, just leave it on the server and
set to download and re-direct email every half an hour, so I can cope
with the nastiness of the UI.

Thanks for the tip-off. Hopefully this will do the job long term. If
not, any ideas for other clients that will do a straight re-direct?
 
IIRC you can do this with Clara's online mail filters.
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Thanks, but i has to be done here on my server. I have a
desktop that does nothing but act as an ftp server and an
off-site storage area for family and friends.

I want to use that to check around ten pop3 mailboxes and,
depending on the criteria I have set, re-direct email to a
different POP3 box that I check with my handheld, or to a
couple of other POP3 boxes that friends/family use.

I want the email left on the server so that I can then d/l
it as normal to my laptop when I get back home.

Out of the 300 emails I get each day, 100 are spam, 150
don't need to be looked at right away (mailing lists, etc)
but 50 I could do with seeing sooner and replying if I can.
These are the ones I want re-directed to the seperate POP3
box which will never have it's address given to anyone at
all so will therefore save me the cost of downloading spam
to my handheld.

Thanks anyway,
 
["Bryan Anderson"; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:05:47 GMT]
I am looking for a small, free email client that I can run on
a dektop here that will filter incoming email and redirect it
to other addresses.
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Pegasus Mail'll do that, with its bounce-forwarding feature.
 
John said:
Wouldn't he need to have a clara.net email account to do that ?
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He's either using Clara as an ISP or as a standalone newsserver. In
either event he is getting multiple mail addies.
How would clara.net help him direct his existing email accounts ?
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It wouldn't; hence my closing remark to him.
 
He's either using Clara as an ISP or as a standalone
newsserver.
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I did wonder how you jumped to the Clara conclusion ;-) Yes,
I use them for usenet only.
 
I am looking for a small, free email client that I can run on
a dektop here that will filter incoming email and redirect it
to other addresses.

Specifically, I want the email to be redirected with all the
original headers intact, so that it still looks like it is
from the original. Most email clients I have tried will forward
email to another address from a filter, but always change the
from: and reply-to: headers.

Any help would be great,
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Do you have access to a UNIX (or Linux) machine? It's dreadfully easy to do
in UNIX systems.
 
Do you have access to a UNIX (or Linux) machine? It's
dreadfully easy to do in UNIX systems.
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No - I *have* tried dual-booting the laptop with Fedora
but it's just not worked out. Main problems were the way
I had to jump through hoops to get widescreen support (I
still don't know how I eventually did it) and no really
easy way to use the same email software/database when in
either Linux or Windows.

In theory I could do about 90% of all I do in Linux. I'd
only really need/want to go back to Windows for Dreamweaver
(there's nothing to match it on Linux, and CorelDraw (again
I found nothing to match it). However, I tried using various
email packages including Thunderbird which came closest to
doing what I wanted, but never managed to work out a seam-
less way of using email under both Linux and Windows.

So - at the moment, and until good equivalents to Corel
Draw and DreamWeaver and a good multi-platform email client
comes out, I'll be stuck with Windows.

The desktops are used by the wife and kids and both have
stuff that is Windows only, so there's not much point in
me trying to go Linux on either of those just yet either.
 
No - I *have* tried dual-booting the laptop with Fedora
but it's just not worked out.
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I was really implying getting access to a Linux server, that's what UNIX-es
are ideal for. You would continue using Windows without a change. Perhaps
your ISP has a UNIX shell account you can log in to? It's worth checking,
because mail filtering is best done at the server side not the client
(desktop) side.
 
There is a free, no ad version, a sponsored (ads) and a pay version. The
sponsored version may be slightly crippled but it is very useable as is the
free one.

There is a Turbo Redirect option in all 3.
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I use Pegasus and like it,I also use Foxmail which is good at
filtering spam.I tried Eudora but not for me.
I'm staying with Pegasus.
 
On Thursday, Jem Berkes wrote:
I found nothing to match it). However, I tried using various
email packages including Thunderbird which came closest to
doing what I wanted, but never managed to work out a seam-
less way of using email under both Linux and Windows.
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Ah, seamless email on windows and linux. I use i.Scribe for that.
http://www.memecode.com/scribe.php

Read/writes mail to a single database file. Put that file on a FAT32
partition and off you go.
 
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