One person wrote:
I would recommend setting your email to forward to a private account. I only set mine up to auto-respond when I left.
I just tested it, my @dallasnews.com address will still tell you how to reach me. I have been gone for two years. Had I set it up to forward instead...
What you need to do to follow this suggestion is set up a "rule' in Outlook to forward your e-mail to another account, such as a gmail, yahoo or other private e-mail address.
Another person added:
Make sure it's a server rule, vs. a client rule.
But I don't know what that means.
One more suggestion:
YMMV on email still working after you leave. I have been gone for over two years and my regular web email and VPN login access was cut off within a week of departing, however my Blackberry continued to still have access to DMN email and calenders for another 6 months until I wiped the device. For all I know, I would still have access at this point had I not done that.
I would also recommend setting up a voice mail message on your phone alerting callers of alternate ways to reach you. My DMN extension is still active, 2+ years after departing, still with a message alerting callers that I no longer work there and how they can reach me at my new job.
Now that we've told the company about this, it may be that they will be more alert about cutting off access. But we all know that technology is not what Belo does best.
If you have additional useful suggestions, please put in your comment.
I left over a year ago, and my @dallasnews.com address no longer gives the out of office message I set up upon departure.
ReplyDeleteSo it appears to be hit and miss at this point.
About server vs. client rule. A server rule runs, of course, on the server. A client rule is tied to the Outlook client running on your work computer, meaning Outlook has to be up and running on that machine for the rule to work.
ReplyDeleteThe server is always running, so that's why you make it a server rule instead of a client rule.
The point about Belo IT looking into this, though, is pretty valid. One would think that mail accounts were killed off after a few months. For grins, I'm going to try to hit my old address, which I haven't used since November 2004.
My thoughts are with you all in the coming weeks, as usual.