Saturday, December 24, 2016

How To Set Up Automatic Email Forwarding In Gmail?

Gmail allows you to automatically forward incoming emails to the other email address. Turn on automatic forwarding in Gmail, to forward your entire new message to another email address, or only forward certain types of messages. This set up of automatic forwarding of your messages can be done on your computer, and not on the Gmail app.



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How to set up automatic Email Forwarding in Gmail?

Enabling Automatic forwarding in Gmail can be vital in today’s digital world with more time spending in the internet using web services. The more online accounts, social networking sites, and Webmail services you sign up, it will be easy to forward all the mails to one mail to reduce the burden of checking all and never miss a mail.

Fortunately, Gmail can automatically forward all the messages arriving in your account, excluding the spam, to any other email address. Using filters, you can even forward only certain messages to certain addresses.

For example, you may find yourself in the situation where you need to forward certain emails to your Gmail account in that case set up automatic Email forwarding in Gmail. You can later, turn off automatic forwarding to stop sending emails to other email address.

Procedure to Enable automatic forwarding in Gmail Account:

Set up auto forward in Gmail account to send messages to another account.

1. On your computer, open Gmail account. This Gmail account should be the account you want to forward messages from.
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How to turn on automatic forwarding in Gmail


Note: you can only forward messages for a single Gmail address, and not an email group or alias.

2. In the top-right corner click Settings (gear icon) and from the drop-down menu click settings.
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How to set up automatic Email forwarding in Gmail

3. Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.
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How to set up auto forward in Gmail

4. In the forwarding section, click Add a forwarding Address.
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How to auto forward Emails in Gmail

5. Enter the Email address you want to forward messages to, in the pop-up window. Click Next.
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How to enable auto forward in Gmail

6. Click proceed to confirm forwarding address pop-up window. Click Ok.
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How to automatically forward gmail messages to another account

7. A verification message will be sent to the Email address. Open the message and click on the verification link or copy the confirmation code.

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How to setup automatic Email forwarding in Gmail
8. Go back to the settings page for the Gmail account you want to forward messages from and paste the code in the field and click verify.
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How to set up automatic forwarding in Gmail 

9. Select Forward a copy of incoming mail to and choose from the options what you want to happen with the Gmail copy of your emails. It is recommended keep Gmail’s copy in the Inbox.
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How to turn on automatic email forwarding in Gmail

10. At the bottom of the page, click Save Changes.
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How to set up automatic forwarding in Gmail 




Now, all your emails will be forwarded to an account you have specified and check emails regularly.
If you want to forward certain kinds of messages to another account, you can create a filter for these messages.

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