Dear colleagues,
I would like to pick the brain of anyone with experience of
Gmail/googlemail for receiving and sending the SED archie emails from
British Library;
I would be happy to hear of *any* experience you may have had.
The basic two questions are:
1) Do you receive emails from [log in to unmask] in googlemail? Does it appear
normally/work okay?
2) Do you forward the archie email to other users with googlemail? If
you do then is it simply done or with a workaround?
More information about our situation:
We currently use a web-based email system called Squirrelmail. In the
next stage of electronic delivery we would like to start forwarding the
British Library email direct to users for them to download themselves.
The University will be be moving over to Googlemail in the near future,
so it will become the receiving account as well as the typical account
it will be forwarded to.
Testing it out with the current system: emails forward okay to other
Squirrelmail accounts, Yahoo, Hotmail and desktop based tools such as
Thunderbird. Googlemail, unfortunately, does not recognise the email in
the same way and displays all the html coding.
Only solution I have been able to find for googlemail (our student body
has already moved over to googlemail) is to forward the email as an
attachment and ask the user to ignore the gibberish, scroll to the
bottom and click the View link next to the attachment. Or do something
simlar by downloading the email as an html file and attaching -which has
the advantage of no gibberish, but is very long-winded for something
that should be a more efficient service on our end.
Kind Regards and thanks for listening,
Jacob Yardley
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Senior Library Assistant tel: 020 7320 1181
Calcutta House Library
London Metropolitan University
Old Castle Street, London E1 7NT
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/library
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