If you have multiple email addresses, you can make use of the
Gmail’s forwarding feature to
automatically forward all the incoming or just certain emails
to another email address of yours. That way, it will save you time from checking emails at different places and keep everything manageable under one preferred email account. In case you are wondering, the forwarded email address can be any type of email address and does not necessarily end with “@gmail.com”. You can use the Gmail’s forwarding feature to forward emails from Gmail to other email services like Yahoo, Hotmail, Outlook, AOL and others. The only catch is that the incoming emails must land in the “
Inbox” folder and not in the “
Spam” folder. Emails that falling into the spam folder will not be forwarded. In addition, this forwarding feature is only possible to set up on the
web version of
Gmail. Here’s how you can
automatically forward Gmail to another email address.
Step One:
Launch any web browsers and
sign in to your
Gmail account as you normally would.
Step Two:
Click on the
Settings icon at the
top right corner of the window and select
Settings from the menu that appears.
Step Three:
On the
top header, click on the
Forwarding and POP/IMAP.
Click on
Add a forwarding Address button next to the
Forwarding label.
Step Four:
Enter the
email address to which you want to forward the incoming emails.
Click on
Next and then
Proceed.
Step Five:
Google will then send a
verification email to the
forwarding email address that you just entered.
Click on the
link to
confirm the
forwarding request.
Step Six:
Go back to your
Gmail account Settings and
refresh the page.
Click on the
option “
Forward a copy of incoming mail to” and select that
forwarding email address. You can also choose whether to keep or not the original incoming emails in the Gmail Inbox.
Click on
Save Changes button to save the settings.
Disable Email Forwarding:
To
Disable the Email Forwarding in the future, you just have to go the
Forwarding and POP/IMAP settings, select
Disable Forwarding and
click on the
Save Changes button at the bottom.
Filter Forwarding:
As mentioned above, you can also
setup filter to only
forward certain type of emails. We’ll be discussing about
filter forwarding in Gmail on our upcoming topics. Meantime, if you need any help in setting up the auto forwarding, kindly leaves your comments in the comment section below.
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