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How to Automatically Forward Emails in Outlook

Even if you need to forward some or all mail to another address, Outlook has very simple ways to automate this process.

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Understanding Automatically forward mail requires more than a headline. The overview below breaks down the key facts, changes, and user impact.

How to Automatically Forward Emails in Outlook

To automatically forward mail in Outlook, you will need to create a rule.

Step 1: Open Outlook, at the Home tab, click on Rules > Manage Rules & Alerts.

How to Automatically Forward Emails in Outlook Select Manage Rules & Alerts on Outlook's Home screen

Step 2: Click on the New Rule to create a new Rule

Step 3: Under the Start from a blank page, select Apple rule on messages I receive and click Next.

How to Automatically Forward Emails in Outlook (2) Apply new rules for messages in Outlook

Step 4: Select the type of email you want to forward automatically, if you want to transfer individual mail, leave it blank and select Next. In this example, in step 1 in the image below, select Forward to people or public group (or if you want, choose forward to people or public group as an attachment ). In step 2, select people or public group.

How to Automatically Forward Emails in Outlook (3) Select the object to apply the mail forwarding rule

Step 5: Enter the email address (s) you want to forward mail.

How to Automatically Forward Emails in Outlook (4) Email address applies forwarding mail

Step 6: Select the exception for this rule (if any), ie the case will not perform mail forwarding according to Rule.

How to Automatically Forward Emails in Outlook (5) Exceptions apply the newly created rule

Step 7: Enter the name for the rule you just created, choose Turn on this rule and select Finish.

How to Automatically Forward Emails in Outlook (6) Name and choose to enable the newly created rule

Email sent in this way will be the same as normal forwarding. To stop forwarding mail, just go back to Home, select Rules > Manage Rules & Alerts and uncheck the box next to the Rule name you don't want to use anymore.

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FAQ

How does Automatically forward mail work?

Understanding Automatically forward mail requires more than a headline.

What should you prepare before using this method?

The overview below breaks down the key facts, changes, and user impact.

What should you do if the process does not work as expected?

How to Automatically Forward Emails in Outlook To automatically forward mail in Outlook, you will need to create a rule.

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