How to Forward Your Gmail Emails Automatically

Quick and easy-to-follow guide for Gmail users

You can set up Gmail to forward all incoming emails to another email address.

Before you can set up automatic forwarding in Gmail

  • This feature uses IMAP, so you must enable IMAP on the same page.

What if I don’t see the automatic forwarding setting in Gmail

How to set up automatic forwarding in Gmail step-by-step with images

Step 1

How To Forward Your Gmail Emails Automatically - Step 1

Open Gmail https://gmail.com and click the Settings gear icon in the top right.

Step 2

How To Forward Your Gmail Emails Automatically - Step 2

Select See all settings.

Step 3

How To Forward Your Gmail Emails Automatically - Step 3

Select Forwarding and POP/IMAP.

Step 4

How To Forward Your Gmail Emails Automatically - Step 4

Click Add a forwarding address next to Forwarding:

Step 5

How To Forward Your Gmail Emails Automatically - Step 5

Enter the address to forward to, click NEXT.

Step 6

How To Forward Your Gmail Emails Automatically - Step 6

Click Proceed to confirm the setup.

Step 7

How To Forward Your Gmail Emails Automatically - Step 7

A confirmation code gets sent to the email address you want to forward to. Click OK.

Step 8

How To Forward Your Gmail Emails Automatically - Step 8

This is what the email looks like. The owner of this email address must now click the long link under “please click the link below to confirm the request:”

Step 9

How To Forward Your Gmail Emails Automatically - Step 9

Click Confirm.

Step 10

How To Forward Your Gmail Emails Automatically - Step 10

Once this Confirmation Success message appears, you can activate the forwarding.

Specify how the automatic forwarding works

How To Forward Your Gmail Emails Automatically - Step 11

In the Gmail settings, make sure that “Forward a copy of incoming mail to” is selected.

You should also select what to do with the original email after it gets forwarded. You can keep it in the mailbox, mark it as read, archive it (remove from the Inbox label), or delete it.

It may take up to 24 hours for this to start working.

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