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.
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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.
Reference:
Turn automatic forwarding on or off in Outlook | Microsoft Support
Automatically forward email messages to another email account
support.microsoft.com
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.
6 Enable Forwarding Email Messages in Outlook for Windows
A) Check Enable forwarding. (see screenshot below)
B) Enter the forwarding email address into the Forward my email to box.
C) Check (on) or uncheck (off) Keep a copy of forwarded messages if you want a copy of the original message to remain in the Outlook mailbox.
D) Click/tap on Save, and go to step 8 below.
7 Disable Forwarding Email Messages in Outlook for Windows
This is the default setting.
A) Uncheck Enable forwarding. (see screenshot below)
B) Click/tap on Save, and go to step 8 below.
8 You can now close the Settings window if you like.
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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