Good afternoon everyone:
Let me start of by saying please excuse the extra long question. I've been redirected twice and I'm just adding all the information from the different postings I made. I'll put a TL:DR at the bottom.
I'm assisting with an email migration at my job. The user has an email account. This email account is attached to a physical Windows user. I do not have access to the user credentials of that account, but I can get access to the email. I have attached the email to my own Outlook (running 2013) and I'm also able to access this email via the Outlook Web app. This account is shared with other users, even though it's a Windows User.
I have created a second email address. This second email address is a shared account. I have access to this account in my Outlook and also have access to this account in the Outlook Web app.
I have set up forwarding in the old email address. Email does get forwarded, sometimes. The old inbox has email being sent to specific folders. It seems email that gets sent to specific folders DO NOT forward to the new inbox. It seems email only forwards from the old account when the email is sent to the Inbox of that account and NOT a specific folder.
The user is getting frustrated and I cannot see any reason as to why the email isn't forwarding. I have created the same folder structure in the new account. The email still does not forward. I haven't created the same rules that are in the old account inside the new account; though that would take quite some time giving that there are a ton of folders with most of them having subfolders, with more subfolders. =(
Does anyone have any suggestions as to why the email wouldn't forward? There is only one user actively using this account right now, so it's not possible for me to check with other workers to see if they're having similar issues.
Also, I have noticed another odd issue. During some troubleshooting, I created a test folder in the old account. I then made a rule to move all email sent by me to this test folder. However, when I send email it does not go to the test folder. It goes to the inbox. So now I'm even more confused. This isn't the scope of the issue, but I thought it was nice information to add. It may help lead to a solution if it's a slightly common problem.
Thanks for any help y'all are able to provide!! I'd like to have some solution as soon as possible, be it temporary or permanent. Having to work on this one user is slowing my migration project down.
The steps I used to forward the email are below:
First step...
Go to outlook.office365.com
Go to our Admin panel
From there, I navigate to our recipients or users...
I view mailboxes
Open the mailbox and set a forwarding rule under the "Mailbox Features"
This works... sometimes...
The next time I open
Outlook.Office365.com
I go to my personal mailbox.
I open another mailbox
I open the mailbox that I want to apply the forwarding rule to
It's under Options > Accounts > Forwarding...
The user has yet to reply if this is working. It's difficult to get immediate responses because of an 8 hour timezone differences.
I haven't set anything else besides those two methods. Those steps can be found online. I am not doing anything related to "redirecting" as far as I know. However, when email is forwarded from the old account, it does not have "Fw" in the subject line. I don't know if forwarding and redirecting has become one thing now.
There are no rules within Outlook itself that is saying forward incoming email in the old inbox.
TL:DR: I'm an IT employee, and I'm having issues forwarding mail from one email account to another. I've set up forwarding within the old account, but some of the mail does NOT forward, and I don't know why. I have both accounts open on my end and when I send to the old account the mail arrives in the old account, and forwards just fine to the new account. I don't see anything wrong. The issue is happening to a user in a timezone 8 hours from mine. There is currently only one user actively using these shared emails, so I can't test with someone else..
Let me know if you need any more information. And please let me know if I'm naming the software incorrectly. I have listed the software I'm using below, just in case I'm naming things wrong.
Windows 7 Professional (Service Pack 1) x64
Mircosoft Office 365 ProPlus
Office Updates: Version 15.0.4675.1003 x32
Microsoft Outlook 2013