You can choose to forward all of your new messages to another email address, or only forward certain types of messages.
Learn how automatic forwarding works
- After you add a forwarding email address, we send a verification link to the address.
- After you verify, you can forward messages to that email address.
- We forward all new messages to the account, except for spam.
- To forward messages that match a specific criteria, you can create a filter.
- To choose what happens to the copy of an incoming email, you can:
- Save a copy in your inbox.
- Automatically archive the copy.
Turn on automatic forwarding
- On your computer, open Gmail.
- Sign in to the account where you want to forward messages from.
- In the top right, click Settings
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- Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP or Forwarding tab.
- In the "Forwarding" section, click Add a forwarding address.
- Enter the email address you want to forward messages to.
- Click Next
- A verification message is sent to the forwarding email address.
- In the other email account, click the verification link in the message.
- Return to the "Settings" page in Gmail.
- Refresh your browser.
- Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP or Forwarding 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.
- It’s recommended you select Keep Gmail's copy in the Inbox.
- At the bottom of the page, click Save Changes.
Turn off automatic forwarding
- On your computer, open Gmail.
- Sign in to the account that's forwarding your emails.
- In the top right, click Settings
- Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP or Forwarding tab.
- In the "Forwarding" section, click Disable forwarding.
- At the bottom, click Save Changes.
Forward messages that match your filters
Important: By default, automatic forwarding sends all your Gmail messages to the new address. To forward specific messages, turn off automatic forwarding and set up a filter to choose which messages get sent.
- On your computer, open Gmail.
- At the top, in the search box, click Show search options
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- Enter your search criteria.
- To check that your search works, click Search.
- At the bottom of the search window, click Create filter.
- From the list of filter options, click Forward it.
- Select the forwarding email address.
- Click Create filter.
Tip: To forward messages to multiple accounts, create a filter for every forwarding email address.
Learn about forwarding notices
"You are forwarding your email to [email address]"If you set up automatic forwarding, you get this notice 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, the notice goes away.
If you created a filter that forwards certain messages to another email address, you get 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 goes away.
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. Learn how to change your password.
- From the “Settings” page in Gmail, turn off forwarding.