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On 2025-08-14 08:34, Scott Mutter via mailop wrote:
Honest question...
Why are people forwarding mail to an off-server email address in 2025?
Would this situation be better solved if Microsoft allowed outlook.com
<http://outlook.com> email users to POP mail from other email accounts -
like Gmail allows, and I believe outlook.com <http://outlook.com>
allowed this at one time?
My opinion is that forwarding mail off-server is just a casualty of all
of the anti-spam measures put in place. Forwarding mail to an
off-server email address is always going to break SPF (unless you use
SRS, which can be messy - and I've yet to see a standard acceptance of
SRS as a viable solution).
Practically all email clients allow you to check multiple email accounts
now. So what is the benefit of forwarding mail from one server to
another mail server to collect mail into a single account? Most often I
see the answer given as "I want my customers to see an @mydomain.com
<http://mydomain.com> email address to write to me, it looks more
professional, but I just want to check my hotmail.com
<http://hotmail.com> email account." That "but" comes with a cost. If
you want customers to write to an @mydomain.com <http://mydomain.com>
email address, then consider setting up an actual @mydomain.com
<http://mydomain.com> email account and check it directly (POP/IMAP)
with an email client.
Please don't interpret this as being condescending. I'm honestly
wanting to hear what the reasons are for forwarding mail off of a server
vs. checking the email account directly. In relation to Outlook.com I
do wish they'd bring back the POP email from another email account, like
Gmail offers. This feature with Gmail at least allows Gmail users to
collect all of their mail in their Gmail account without the side
effects of forwarding mail. If Outlook is going to punish based on SPF
- which all forwarded emails will fail - then offering this as a "POP"
solution would seem to be in their best interest.
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