Forward my Microsoft 365 email to a different email account
Note: We're working to resolve an issue with email forwarding. If you see an error, please wait an hour and try again. Or, users can turn on automatic forwarding in Outlook on the web.
Set up forwarding on an email account so that the incoming email goes to a different account, like one with Gmail or Yahoo. Forwarding can save you time by consolidating all your email into one account.
Required: To forward email to an address outside of your organization (meaning it uses a different domain, like your personal email account), turn on external email forwarding first.
- Sign in to your Email & Office Dashboard.
- If you're an account owner, go to a user and then select Manage. Otherwise, continue to the next step.
- If you have admin permissions, you can also create forwards by going to Admin and then selecting Email Forwarding. Select Add Forwarding, choose a user (if you have multiple), and then skip to step 4.
- Under Manage, select Forwarding.
- Under User, verify the correct user's selected.
- Under Forward mail to, enter the email address where you want incoming mail forwarded.
- (Optional) To keep copies of email in your inbox, select the checkbox next to Keep a copy of forwarded mail. If you don't, messages will only forward to the specified address and there won't be any copies available in the Microsoft 365 account.
- Select Save. You'll see a confirmation message. The admins and user will receive an email when forwarding is added or changed.
New messages will now automatically deliver to the other email account. To edit or delete your email forward, select Forwarding again.
Related steps
- Create inbox rules to automatically move incoming messages to a specific folder or assign an importance level. Learn more from Microsoft.
- Forward another email account to your Microsoft 365 email.
