Forward an Email in Outlook

Automatically Forward an Email in Outlook

Despite being five years old now, Outlook 2013 is still the most popular email client in use. Many schools, colleges, and businesses still use it as upgrades are expensive and involve a lot of work. If you use it, here’s how to automatically forward an email in Outlook 2013. The same method also works for Outlook 2016, as the syntax is almost identical.

1. Open Outlook and select File from the top menu on the left.
2. Now, select Manage Rules & Alerts.
3. Select the email address you want to apply the rule to if you have multiple addresses.
4. Then select New Rule…
   
5. Now, click on Start from a blank rule > Apply rule on messages I receive and then hit Next. 
6. Select your condition. Here you set whether you forward emails from certain people or only those marked as important or some other condition depending on your needs and then edit the rule description.
   
7. Now, click on the emails you want to add the rule to and click OK.
   
8. Once you’ve edited the rule description, select Next >.
9. Select the forward it to people or public group option in the next window. Select the link and add the email address of the email address you want emails forwarded to.
10. Create an exception if necessary. This would exclude certain emails or spam from being forwarded.
    
11. Name your forwarding rule and select Turn on this rule when you’re ready.

Automatically Forward an Email in Outlook. Web

Outlook.com is Microsoft’s free webmail service that used to be called Hotmail. It doesn’t use installed email clients or traditional Exchange servers. It is all online, so you can still forward emails.

1. Log into your email account
   
2. Click on the Settings cog in the upper right corner.
   
3. Select View all Outlook settings.
   
4. Click on Forwarding and then set up your forwarding address.
   

You cannot set the same kind of rules you can with Outlook

Automatically Forward an Email in Mac

1. Click on Rules at the top.
   
2. Click on Edit Rules.
   
3. Click on the + symbol at the bottom. PC users may see Inbox rules, select that, then select New.
   
4. Name your Rule, set the parameters, and then click Forward To.
   
5. Enter the forwarding address and click Ok.
   

Once saved, forwarding should stop immediately.