You can choose to forward all of your new messages to another email address, or only forward certain types of messages.
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Set up automatic forwarding
You can automatically forward your messages to another address. You can choose to forward all new messages, or just certain ones.
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Note: You can only set up forwarding on your computer, and not on the Gmail app. If you have an account through work or school and have trouble, contact your administrator.
Turn automatic fowarding on or off
Note: When your new messages are forwarded, messages from spam won’t be included.
Turn on automatic forwarding
On your computer, open
Gmail
using the account you want to forward messages from. You can only forward messages for a single Gmail address, and not an email group or alias.In the top right, click Settings See all settings. Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.In the “Forwarding” section, click Add a forwarding address.Enter the email address you want to forward messages to.Click Next Proceed OK.A verification message will be sent to that address. Click the verification link in that message.Go back to the settings page for the Gmail account you want to forward messages from, and refresh your browser.Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.In the “Forwarding” section, select Forward a copy of incoming mail to.Choose what you want to happen with the Gmail copy of your emails. We recommend Keep Gmail’s copy in the Inbox.At the bottom of the page, click Save Changes.
Turn off automatic forwarding
On your computer, openGmail
using the account you want to stop forwarding messages from.In the top right, click Settings See all settings. Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.In the “Forwarding” section, click Disable forwarding.At the bottom, click Save Changes.
If you only want to forward certain kinds of messages to another account,
create a filter
for these messages.
When you’re setting up your filter, you can choose what email address to forward these messages to.
If you don’t see an email address to forward messages to, follow the steps above to turn on forwarding.
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You can only automatically forward all your messages to one account.
To forward emails to multiple accounts, use the steps above in “Only forward certain kinds of messages” to create filters to forward messages to different accounts.
If you set up automatic mail forwarding using the steps above, you’ll see a notice in your inbox for the first week after you turned on forwarding. This is a reminder that forwarding is turned on, and gives you a chance to review your forwarding settings.
If you turn off forwarding, this notice will go away.
If you created a filter that forwards certain messages to another email address, you’ll see this notice in your inbox for the first week after you set up 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 notice will go away.
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If you see a forwarding notice, but never set it up on your account, follow these steps:
Change your password
immediately. Someone else might have access to your Gmail account.Follow the steps above to turn off forwarding.
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