I’ve got this Mail rule:
When I receive mail from a number of wineries, it is supposed to resend (I’m using Redirect but have also tried it with Forward) it to my wife, then flag it and move to my Wine mailbox.
What it does is flag the message and move it to the Wine mailbox. It doesn’t appear to even attempt to send the message. To make matters more confusing, when I save the rule by pressing OK the actions get sorted, putting Move Message first. So something really hokey is going on. I’ve tried deleting the rule and reentering it to no avail.
So is anyone here using a rule to redirect/forward messages successfully? If so could you post what the rule looks like. Perhaps I just need a different approach. A web search brought up nothing useful – people reporting issues with this never seemed to get it resolved. Hopefully there is a Power User that has gotten this automation feature to work.
OK, after a lot of fussing around I discovered the bug in that “Redirect Message” or “Forward Message” only work as an action if there are no other actions. So it works if I use two rules:
followed by:
Curiously, Apple’s example of use has only one action.
It’s interesting that yours is working. I have only asked Mail to forward a message based on conditions and it doesn’t work at all. I’m trying the server-based rules on the icloud.com site now to see if this helps.
Thanks for chiming in, @tomalmy. I’m sorry but I’m not sure I understand the workaround you are referring to. My rule only has one action (Forward Message) but doesn’t seem to work. Can you suggest any changes?
Thanks anyways