Adding a forwarding rule in mail.

By Khomus, 5 December, 2024

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Hi all.

So I'm trying to add a rule in mail to forward a message. I give it a name, go into the criteria table, from is selected, I say it's from foo.com. Then I go to select that action. Apple's support article says I pick forward, then enter the email address I want mail forwarded to.

However, if I pick forward, the scroll area becomes empty, and the popup says "no action available". So there is literally no place where I can enter any addresses to forward to. Anybody know how to make this work right? This is under 15.1 if it matters. Basically I just want any message with foo.com that comes in to automatically get forwarded to another address. Seems like a pretty straightforward thing to set up, but I guess not.

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By Tyler on Friday, December 6, 2024 - 18:49

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

I don't use Mail rules myself, preferring to implement Gmail filters server-side when needed, but when I performed a quick test of this, I found that after selecting "Forward message" from the popup menu, the scroll area no longer became navigable with VO-Left and right arrow, however, I was able to locate the forwarding address, and other focusable elements in the dialog, using the Tab key.

HTH

By Khomus on Friday, December 6, 2024 - 18:49

That worked. Well, I think it worked, I manually forwarded a message because it already arrived. So we'll see what happens when a new one comes in. But it did indeed get me to an edit field to type an address.

I can't use GMail because it's with my ISP, well technically our old ISP we're still paying for email addresses, because we've had them for years and years.