Browsers and Mail Enable or Disable Forwarding Email Messages in Outlook for Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable forwarding email messages in the Outlook for Windows app for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11.

The new Outlook for Windows brings the latest features, intelligent assisted capabilities and a new modern and simplified design to your Outlook app. You can tailor it to your style and do more with new Outlook for Windows.

Starting in June 2023, Microsoft is beginning the process of migrating existing Windows Mail, Calendar, and People users to the new Outlook for Windows.

Beginning in 2024, Windows 11 devices will be shipped with the new Outlook for Windows as the default mailbox application free for all to use. The Mail and Calendar apps will continue to be available via download in the Microsoft Store through the end of 2024. On existing devices, users can switch to the new Outlook for Windows from a toggle in the Mail and Calendar apps.

You can automatically forward or redirect your email messages in Outlook by setting up Inbox rules. This is useful if you want to read and respond to messages from another email account or when you want someone else to receive and respond to your email in your absence.

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Here's How:

1 Open the Outlook for Windows app.

2 Click/tap on the Settings (gear) icon on the toolbar. (see screenshot below)


3 In Settings, click/tap on Mail in the left pane, and click/tap on Forwarding in the middle pane. (see screenshot below)


4 If you have more than one email account added to Outlook, then select the email account in the These settings are applied at the account level drop menu you want to apply changes to. (see screenshot below)


5 Do step 6 (enable) or step 7 (disable) below for what you want.

This is the default setting.

8 You can now close the Settings window if you like.


That's it,
Shawn Brink