Straight-"forward" whining

The mail forwarding system has been supported in the SMTP protocol for decades. Really. Do I ask for too much if I want to just use it?

First of all, you don't really have that much of a choice on your IM service. It has to be the one most of your friends use. So I had to use Windows Live, whether I like it or not. I didn't want to give them my primary email address, so I registered for a free Hotmail one - I just didn't want the mails, so I kept telling everyone "don't email me on Hotmail please, use that other address instead". In vain. Some of them had my other address even before we started chatting on Messenger, but they'd just switch to Hotmailing me... So it was just natural that I wanted to start forwarding it. Alas, I only have the option to forward to other Windows Live addresses... I then thought of using Gmail's POP fetcher and then use Gmail's forwarding - but POP wasn't available either, until very recently! (In fact, it's only available in a few countries, but you can change that in your settings no matter where you live, right?) So I was basically stuck with the stupid web interface...

Another story: For some irrelevant reason (ask me if you're curious), I was stuck with receiving a weekly magazine I was barely interested in. With some luck, it would end up in the WC closet, for those times when you're looking for something to read. With less luck, it went straight to the recycle bin. Trying to save the Amazon forest from greedy magazine enforcers, I was informed that I could just sign up for their free email service and opt to receive the magazine by email instead. So I did - I signed up, then looked for the forward option. I even emailed them about it. "No, email forwarding is not supported". Sigh... Fortunately, they do support POP... but imagine my frustration when yet another issue of the magazine arrived... sorry, little tree, I did my best to save you... I'm a good kitty...

... am I?