Forward Email from your Microsoft 365 Outlook account

This article describes how to forward or redirect email messages from your Microsoft 365 (M365) account to another email address.

Step-by-Step

1. Log in to outlook.office.com with your username@uwaterloo.ca (your username is your 8-character UWaterloo username, i.e. myuserna@uwaterloo.ca) and password.

2. At the right-hand side of your screen, click on Settings (ie. the gear symbol)
   
   

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3. Scroll down and click on View all Outlook settings
   
   

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4. On the Settings page, click on Mail > Rules > click on + Add new rule

5. Complete the information for the new rule:

   1. Name your rule

   2. Add a condition: Select Apply to all messages from the drop-down box

   3. Add an action: Select Forward to from the Add an action drop-down box and enter the email address you wish to forward to. Choose this option if you want to have the messages forwarded to another email address, but keep a copy of the email message in your M365 Inbox.
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      Select Redirect to from the Add an action drop-down box and enter the email address you wish to redirect to. Choose this option if you want to have the messages redirected to another email address without keeping a copy of the email message in your M365 Inbox.
      
      

6. Check the box Stop processing more rules and click Save to create the rule.

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