So for months now we've been on countdown here at work because they were going to change over the email program to a new server.

D-Day was today, May 1, protests be damned, full speed ahead.

There were meetings and gnashing of teeth and all kids of emails about this for months. MONTHS.

Let me sum up: New server, Switched email access to Outlook and Outlook Web Access for "security reasons."

As FUCKING IF. Anybody out there got a virus that DIDN'T come in via Outlook and IE?

So know we must use IE as somehow this piece of shit knows the difference between IE and IE open in a Firefox tab. And, although it will open in FF, you lose all of your functionality EXCEPT reading and sending mail.

Fucking Bill Gates. But on to my point.

One of the biggest bones of contention across campus has been that people like to forward their mail to a personal account (in my case gmail) and then reply/send from that account.

What we had been told EXPLICITLY is this: You may forward messges to a personal account (in fact we were given reasonably simple instructions on how to do this), however this software DOES NOT allow aliasing messages from your personal account to look as though they were sent from your work account (via bouncing or POP forwarding).

Yeah. Right.

Guess what? I can fucking send ALL the messages I want from my gmail that look like they come from my work address. HOWEVER, I can not RECEIVE a single piece of mail at my gmail from my work address.

Yep. Exactly the opposite. The not-at-all-practicable opposite.

Two fucking hours on the phone with the IT tech, who is also stumped, since I had already followed the instructions in his book to the letter. TO THE LETTER. He even did a VPN and had me show him what I did, agreeing that I had done it correctly.

I fucking quit.

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