Hmm, Why de-activate the old account? nothing new will go there but you still allow access.
Eric S ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob McGregor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 5:28 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] reply to sender question. Actually I do see a flaw. If I inactivate the existing account and setup a new one, then the person loses access to all mail on their existing account. Just curious, can I create the new account, copy the contents of the old users account to the new account directory and would the maintain the persons existing account? ____________________________________________________ so rather than change the existing one, inactivate it, create a new one and then forward the message to the new account AND send a reply back to the sender? thanks Eric! I just tried it and much better. I was worried that it would leave the message in the original account as well but it does not...cool! any downsides to this process? Does not appear to be... bob On Monday, August 26, 2002 2:37 PM, Eric Shanbrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >sure, Leave the Jane_doe account. Set the info manager on this box to send a >message to the sender about the new address then forward it to the new >address. > >Eric S >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Bob McGregor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "IMailList" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 4:05 PM >Subject: [IMail Forum] reply to sender question. > > >We have imail 7.12. I'm wondering if anyone has figured out a way to inform >a sender when someone's name(account) changes. > >Example: Jane Does email account is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jane changes her >name to Smith so we change her account to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and we setup >an alias so existing folks who have her address as jane_doe get their mail >delivered to jane_smith. > >here's what I'd like to do: setup an inbound rule that if the to address is >jane_doe (old account) send a message back to the sender that jane's account >has changed and her new account is jane_smith.... > >anyone have an idea on doing this? I'd like to do this so we do not have to >keep the alias for ever... > >thanks, bob > > > >To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > >To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
