Whether you are an employee or an employer, working in G-mail is a regular thing for everyone today. Even school students and learners rely on Gmail for some formal means of communication with guides and teachers.
This formal means of sharing and receiving useful information often requires you to share some very usefuls mails to other members or friends. This forwarding of emails from your G-mail can be done in various ways. This is exactly what we will be focussing on in this article.
So let’s begin this quest of knowledge about forwarding emails from Gmail.
There are following ways of forwarding emails from Gmail
1. Through Email
2. Automatic forward settings
3. Automatic forward settings(to multiple accounts)
1. Through Emails
You can easily forward emails from various accounts from inside of the mails.
For this,
First of all, you need to open the actual mail sent by the account.
This way encompasses two independent ways of forwarding emails from inside Gmail.
- The first one, involves clicking on the Forward option just below the mail.
- The other one is by clicking on the more option tool( indicated by three dots) in the leftmost part of the mail.
Forward mails from “Forward” option
When you open the mail that you want to forward to any other email address on Gmail, you see a “Forward” option at the end of that mail, that lies close to the “Reply” option.
Here are the steps for forwarding mails using the “Forward” option:
- Click on the “Forward” option.
- Provide the email address of the recipient, inside the white box, after the arrow, on the top of the screen.
- Click on the “Send” option on the top of the screen.
Whilst, you can also make changes to structure, writing style, paragraph sizing, and content before sending the forward from the bar placed above the “Send” button.
Forward mails from more option
You can also forward the mail by clicking on the “more” option inside the mail, situated in the right most corner inside the content box in mail.
Here are the steps for forwarding a mail using more option:
- Click on the “more” option.
- Select the “Forward” option from those given in the bar.
- Provide the email address of the recipient, inside the white blank box, after the arrow, on the top of the window. .
Before forwarding the email, you can alter the font settings, paragraph sizing, bullet, forms and much more. From the bar above the “Send” button.
- Click on the “Send” button on the bottom of the content box.
Hence, the mail is forwarded.
2. Automatic forward setting
Airomatic forward setting is a good option of automating mails forward from any email address, from where you wish to get useful or important mails. For instance if you get any email from your bank or client associated with your joint venture, and you wish to share each of those mails with your associate, then automating the forward setting is certainly a great option for you.
Forwarding mails from automatic forward setting
After you have opened your Gmail account, from which you want to forward these mails.
Follow the steps below to automate forward settings:
- Click on the “Settings” icon, on the top right corner of your Gmail home screen.
- Select the ‘see all settings’ option inside the Quick Settings bar.
- Click on the “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab, on the top of the Settings page.
- Click on “Add a forwarding address” inside the Forwarding settings.
- And add the Email address of the recipient in the blank box inside the small window.
- Click on the “Proceed” option in that same window.
- Once again confirm the step by clicking on the “OK” button.
Login to the Email account that you have added in the Forwarding Settings in the above step, or the one, from which you want to forward the mails to.
- Find the confirmation mail sent by the Gmail after you have proceeded the request.
- Open the link given in the confirmation mail.
- Click on the “Confirm” button in the confirmation page.
Here, you have added the Forwarding Email account in your Gmail successfully.
Login to the Email that we began with in this process above, from the one, which you forward the emails with.
- Click on the settings icon on the top of the page. And select the “See all Settings” option.
- Click on the “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab on the top of the Gmail page.
- Select “Forwarding a copy of incoming mail to” in the Forwarding section.
There, you will see the Email address of the recipient in the Sentence after the line ‘Forwarding a copy of incoming mail to’ .
- Select the option in the last of the same sentence, to choose what happens to those mails in your Gmail.
- Click on the “Save Changes” option on the bottom of the page.
Here, you finish the process of automatically forwarding the mails to another account in Gmail.
Hence, automatic forwarding of emails from your Gmail is activated.
It may be the case that you want to forward some specific emails to another account, despite forwarding all of the emails. For that you can use the ‘Create a Filter’ option in your Gmail, for forwarding your selected emails to the other accounts.
Creating a Filter for forwarding emails in Gmail
For creating a filter for forwarding some specific mails to another Email account follow the steps given below:l
- Log in to your Gmail account on any browser.
- Go to the Settings icon on the top right corner. And select the “see all settings” option.
- Click on the “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab on the top of the Gmail page.
- Inside the Forwarding section, click on the “creating a filter” option.
Here you can apply various filters to your forwarding email.
You can restrict mails that have certains words, or doesn’t have certain words, or allow mails from only certain mails, etc.
- After typing the restrictions or recipients, click on the “create filter with this search” on the bottom of this short window
You can select various responses for the filtered mails like mark as read, star it and others.
- Çlick on the “Create Filter” to confirm the filters.
Here you finish adding filters to your forwarding mails.
3. Automatic forward settings(to multiple accounts)
Though Gmail doesn’t allow its users to automatically forward the emails to multiple accounts. You can easily forward emails to more than one account by using filters for forwarding messages in Gmail.
Follow the steps below to automatically forward mails to more than one account:
- Login to your Gmail account on any browser.
- Click on the setting icon on the top right corner.
- Select the “see all settings” option inside the Quick settings.
- Click on the “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab on the top of the Gmail page.
- Click on “Add a forwarding address” inside the Forwarding section.
Follow the same process for saving a forwarding address as we did in the section “Automatic forward settings”.
Where we successfully added a forwarding address and automated emails forwarding.
In a similar way add another email address in the Forwarding section of Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.
Thereafter follow the steps below to automate forwarding on it:
- Click on the “Filter and Blocked Addresses” tab.
- Click on the “Create a filter” option.
- Add a filter to your forwarding mails to add another forwarding email by using it.
(Let’s say just type the email with which you want to forward the emails after the box in front of to.)
- Click on “Create filter with this search” in the bottom of the small window.
- Click on “Choose an address” in front of the “Forward it to”. And select the other Email address (the one which you haven’t added in the above process (automatic forward settings).
- Click on the ” Create filter” button to confirm the above process.
Here we finish the process of automatically forwarding emails to multiple accounts on Gmail.
FAQ
Q: How do I forward an email in Gmail?
A: To forward an email in Gmail, open the email and click on the forward icon (an arrow pointing to the right) located at the top of the email interface. Enter the email address of the recipient, add a message if desired, and click “Send”.
Q: Can I forward multiple emails at once in Gmail?
A: Yes, you can forward multiple emails at once in Gmail by selecting the emails you want to forward and clicking on the “Forward” button located at the top of the email list. You can then enter the email addresses of the recipients and add a message if desired.
Q: How can I automatically forward incoming emails in Gmail?
A: To automatically forward incoming emails in Gmail, click on the gear icon in the top-right corner of the Gmail interface, select “Settings”, and then click on the “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab. Click on the “Add a forwarding address” button and enter the email address you want to forward to. Follow the instructions to confirm the forwarding address, and then select the “Forward a copy of incoming mail to” option and choose the forwarding address.
Q: Is it possible to exclude certain emails from automatic forwarding in Gmail?
A: Yes, you can set up filters in Gmail to exclude certain emails from automatic forwarding based on criteria such as sender, subject, or keyword. To set up a filter, click on the gear icon in the top-right corner of the Gmail interface, select “Settings”, and then click on the “Filters and Blocked Addresses” tab. Click on the “Create a new filter” button, enter the filter criteria, and select the “Skip the Inbox (Archive it)” and “Apply the label” options to exclude the emails from automatic forwarding.
Q: How can I stop forwarding emails in Gmail?
A: To stop forwarding emails in Gmail, click on the gear icon in the top-right corner of the Gmail interface, select “Settings”, and then click on the “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab. Click on the “Disable forwarding” option and then click “Save Changes”.
