Setup Mail Forwarding (webmail)

Starting/Stopping Forwarding

When you set up forwarding for your mail account, messages addressed to your account are automatically sent (forwarded) to another email address. You can specify one or more valid email addresses as destinations for your forwarded messages. You can only set message forwarding if this feature is enabled on your email account. If the Forwarding option does not display, your email account is not enabled with this feature.

To start Mail Forwarding, follow these steps.

  1. Log in to your email account at https://webmail.sdsu.edu.
  2. Click the Options link, and then click Forwarding. Result: The Forwarding page displays.
  3. Select Yes for the Forward Messages option and enter the following data:
    • Forwarding Address: The destination email addresses to which you want your mail to be automatically forwarded. If you enter multiple addresses, separate them with commas; for example,

      user1@hostname, user2@hostname, user3@hostname
    • Keep a copy of each forwarded message in your inbox: Select this checkbox to have a copy of forwarded messages delivered to your Inbox. Note: If you leave this option de-selected, no copy of the forwarded message is saved.
  4. Click Apply.
    Result: A confirmation message displays, Forwarding is started; messages addressed to your account are automatically forwarded to the specified destination address.
  5. To stop the auto-forwarding mechanism, select No for the Forward Messages option and click Apply. Result: A confirmation message displays, Forwarding is stopped.