> From: Chris Siebenmann <[email protected]> > Welcome to university mailer life, where you will find plenty of > (long-term) users who say 'forward all of my incoming mail to GMail, yes > I mean *all* of it, even the mail that your anti-spam system thinks is spam'. > > Sometimes this is because your users are hitting their problem with > handy but blunt tools and you can help by giving them an easy option > to eg forward all non-spam (or at least all things you think aren't > spam; GMail may disagree and frequently does for us). Sometimes this is > because your users don't trust your mail system's anti-spam work and > they want GMail to do it instead. Sometimes this is because users plain > don't trust your mail system and want your mail system to have as little > to do with their email as possible. > > (Some people in industry are now saying 'just make a policy that you > can't do that'. This doesn't work at universities for any number of > reasons. If you can get the political backing to push it hard enough, > you'll find that people basically abandon using their university email > address and your professors and graduate students start just telling > people to use their GMail or whatever addresses[*].)
You can explain to them a faster way to get all mail to Gmail: Settings - Acconts and Import - "Check mail from other accounts (using POP3)". So Gmail pulls from your POP3 server instead of you trying to push to Gmail MX. -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
