Sometimes you may need to forward some specific emails to another email address. You can manually click on the Forward option and send the email to desired email id but what if you want to send particular emails automatically once they receive in your mailbox? In Gmail, you can automate this task and forward all the particular emails to another email. In this guide, we will see how to forward emails to another email easily and automatically.
Why do you need to forward emails to another email?
The simple examples of forwarding emails –
Example 1 – Suppose you have a common Amazon Account in your family but amazon is registered with your email id. So now, if your family member orders something from Amazon, they won’t get an email about product updates. In this case, you can forward all amazon emails to their emails so that they can also keep updated about their product.
Example 2 – The credit card statement management app scans all your emails and fetches all your credit card statements and shows them in their app/tool. Since you only need to know the card statement and due date, the tool scans all your inbox which is risky and not so privacy-friendly. You can forward statements mail to some random email id and provide access to that random email.
Many services ask you to grant full email access which includes reading, writing, erasing all the emails and you may not want to give some random service tool to have all your primary email data. In such a case, you can use another email and forward the required mail to from another gmail or other email providers like Yahoo, Hotmail, etc..
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Let’s know to learn how to exactly do it in simple steps.
How to forward Emails to another Email in Gmail?
There are two steps that you need to perform – first add and verify forwarding email ID and then filter the emails coming from a particular email.
Note – The option is not only available to the desktop version of Gmail and not available on Gmail App. We will update the article once the option is available on the smartphone App.
A] Add forwarding Email ID in Gmail –
- Open gmail.com on your computer browser and log in with your Google account password.
- Click on the Settings icon and select the ‘See all Settings‘ option.
- Then click on the ‘Forwarding and POP/IMAP‘ option from the sub-menu.
- Now, click on the ‘Add a forwarding Address‘ button.
- Then add your other email ID here. (Make sure that you have access to that email).
- Now, open your New Email ID and open the email received from the Google team and copy the authentication code.
- Now, paste the authentication code in the box given on the forwarding settings in your primary email.
- The forwarding email is now verified and added to the forwarding email list.
Next is to filter emails that you want to forward to another email.
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B] Forward emails received from a particular Email ID to another email –
- Open gmail.com on your computer browser and log in with your Google account password.
- Now, search the email ID that you want to forward and all future emails. I have searched ‘HDFC Credit card statement’ email which I want to forward to another email id.
- Now, open the email and click on the 3-dot menu.
- Now, click on the “Filter messages like these“.
- In the filter window, click on the ‘Create Filter‘ option.
- Now, select the Forwarding email ID from the drop-down list and also select tick mark ‘Also apply a filter to X matching conversation‘ option.
- At last, click on the ‘Create Filter‘ button to enable forwarding.
Done! Your all future emails will now be automatically forwarded to the forwarding email address.
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Summary –
In this guide, we have seen how to forward emails to another email in Gmail. In case you have any doubt regarding the information provided in the article, let us know in the comment section below.
