Automatically forrard Gmail letters to another account

Yous can choose to frontwards all of your new letters to another email address, or only frontwards sure types of messages.

Set up automatic forwarding

You lot can automatically frontwards your letters to some other address. You can cull to forward all new messages, or but certain ones.

Note:You lot can only set forwarding on your computer, and not on the Gmail app. If you have an account through work or schoolhouse and have trouble, contact your administrator.

Turn automatic forwarding on or off

Note: When your new messages are forwarded, letters from spam won't be included.

Turn on automatic forwarding

Forwarding email to another account.

  1. On your computer, open Gmail using the account you want to forward messages from. Yous can only forward messages for a single Gmail address, and not an e-mail group or alias.
  2. In the top correct, click Settings Settingsand thenRun across all settings.
  3. Click the Forwarding and Pop/IMAP tab.
  4. In the "Forwarding" section, click Add a forwarding address.
  5. Enter the e-mail accost y'all want to forward letters to.
  6. Click Next and then Proceed and then OK.
  7. A verification message will be sent to that address. Click the verification link in that message.
  8. Become dorsum to the settings page for the Gmail account you want to forward messages from, and refresh your browser.
  9. Click theForwarding and Pop/IMAP tab.
  10. In the "Forwarding" section, select Forward a copy of incoming mail to.
  11. Choose what you want to happen with the Gmail copy of your emails. We recommend Continue Gmail's re-create in the Inbox.
  12. At the lesser of the page, click Save Changes.

Plough off automatic forwarding

  1. On your computer, open Gmail using the account you want to stop forwarding messages from.
  2. In the acme right, click Settings Settingsand thenRun into all settings.
  3. Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.
  4. In the "Forwarding" department, click Disable forwarding.
  5. At the lesser, click Salve Changes.

Merely forward sure kinds of messages

If you lot only want to forward certain kinds of messages to another account, create a filter for these messages.

When you're setting upwardly your filter, you can choose what electronic mail address to forward these messages to.

If you don't see an email accost to forward messages to, follow the steps above to plow on forwarding.

Frontwards to multiple accounts

You tin only automatically forward all your messages to ane business relationship.

To forward emails to multiple accounts, utilize the steps above in "Only forrad certain kinds of messages" to create filters to forwards messages to different accounts.

I got a forwarding notice

"You are forwarding your mail" notice

If y'all gear up upwards automatic mail forwarding using the steps above, yous'll come across a notice in your inbox for the first week afterward you lot turned on forwarding. This is a reminder that forwarding is turned on, and gives y'all a chance to review your forwarding settings.

If you plough off forwarding, this detect will go away.

"Your filters are forwarding some of your mail" find

If y'all created a filter that forwards certain messages to another email address, you lot'll see this observe in your inbox for the first calendar week after yous fix the filter. This is a reminder that forwarding is turned on, and gives you a chance to review your forwarding settings.

If you change your filter to stop forwarding messages, the find will go away.

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