Email Forwarding

 Email forwarding is a technique for transferring an email from one email address/mailbox to another.  For example an email addressed originally to steve@flasedomain.com can be sent to steve@gooddomain.com by this technique.

Email can be forwarded by manual forwarding (done by the person receiving the email) or automatic forwarding (the email server or email client forwards the email without any user intervention).

Uses of Email Forwarding

Email forwarding can be used to:

• send a the email to someone else or another mailbox.
• send a copy of an email to someone else or another mailbox.

For example if you have you primary account at work and go out of the office for a few days you can arrange to forward a copy of your email to an external POP3 or Webmail account like Yahoo so that you can read it while you are away.

Because you have forwarded a copy of the email the original is still in your work mailbox when you return.

It is also used when transferring email accounts from one provider to another. You arrange for email sent to the old account to be automatically forwarded to the new account.

 After you are satisfied that you are no longer receiving email at the old account you can then cancel it.

The technique is the same as used with normal mail when moving house. You arrange with the post office to send all mail addresses to your old address to your new one.

Email forwarding is usually how universities and colleges provide so called lifetime email address. They simply provide access to email forwarding on the old email address.

Setting up email forwarding shows how to setup in forwarding.