The Schrödinger Email

Tracing my way around a failed email redirection.How hard can emails be? Or so I thought. Boy, was I wrong. This post is basically me fucking around with email infrastructure and finding out the hard way. #The Problem As a person with multiple credit cards (no judging!) — I like to track all of them in a single place using apps such as CRED or Fold. They often ask for email access to read the statements and I don’t want to give complete access over my emails. Hence, I have a separate email where I forward emails via mail rules, but the problem is forwarding them removes the original sender information i.e. the bank here and I want to retain all this information. In an ideal world, this would’ve just worked and I will not be writing this post :P #Attempt #1 - Outlook Rule I created a rule to redirect any mail to my Gmail address for testing purposes. The rule itself works but there’s no status indication anywhere, so you cannot tell if it failed or not? Bad UX. Gmail’s postmaster…