Anyone want my money?

[andrewducker]

You know how some people have email they can get to during the day, email they can get to at night, etc. (i.e. work email and home email). How about a service whereby you have an autoforwarder email address that sends email on to the correct address depending on when it's sent.

So, for instance, I have an address andrewducker@forwarding.com. You send an email to me at that address and, as it's 4:55 it sends it on to me at andrew_ducker@standardlife.com, changing the reply-to address to 1444562342343@forwarding.com. I then reply to it, and the site sends the reply on to you , changing the 'from' to andrewducker@forwarding.com. When you reply to that at 5:05, it then forwards that email on to andrew@ducker.org.uk, knowing that at 5:00 I go home.

I'd want to have multiple possibilities, some of which overlap. So from 8-5 Monday-Friday it send email to work, from midnight to 9am and 4pm-midnight it sends it to home. I'd get overlapping copies for those two hours, but it's a price worth paying to make sure that urgent emails get to me no matter where I am.

I'd pay for this service, and I'm willing to bet I'm not the only one...

Comments

[diffrentcolours]

Trouble with that is that you then lose the ability to retrieve e-mail sent to you at work while at home, and vice-versa. Webmail with Squirrelmail, IMAP or SSH is the way to go.

[andrewducker]

Webmail at my work is _expressly_ forbidden and blocked the instant IS find out about it.

And if you want it all to go home, set up the "home" filter to be 24/7 and the work one to go to work in addition to home, 8-4, Mon-Fri.

[aberbotimue.livejournal.com]

use a web mail system they don't know about?

or is it the issue of doing it at all?

[andrewducker]

use a web mail system they don't know about?

Instant Dismissal Offence.

We're a Financial Company. All email must go through the servers, be logged, and stored.

[aberbotimue.livejournal.com]

thats fair..

so, time based rules for e-mail huh...

give me a couple of weeks and you can beta it!

[diffrentcolours]

So use IMAP. Or ssh. Duplicating e-mail means you don't remember which you've replied to and which you haven't, and involves storing personal correspondance on a company machine, which is rarely sensible.

[andrewducker]

So use IMAP. Or ssh.

I have port 80 open only. And accessible via a proxy server that logs everything via username.

[diffrentcolours]

So tunnel IMAPS or SSH over port 80 :)

[andrewducker]

Again, I really don't want to be sacked, or to engage in things that complex to set up/maintain. Especially as installing software on my machine is.... a dismissal offense.

Ahem

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

I've just re fwded you an email.

I thot I'd got the hang of sending it to both your addresses in the witching zone but obviously not..

and yes I'm still at work.

[markpasc.livejournal.com]

What about holidays?

[andrewducker]

I'm sure a system could deal with holidays as exceptions. My Yahoo (And PDA) calendar can deal with exceptions to events, after all.