Configure electronic mail forwarding for a mailbox

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Email forwarding lets you to fix a mailbox to forward email messages sent to a user'south mailbox to another user'southward mailbox in or outside of your organization.

Use the Commutation admin middle and the Exchange Management Beat

You lot can use either the Exchange admin center (EAC) or Exchange Management Shell to ready email forwarding.

You lot need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure or procedures. To see what permissions you demand, meet the "Recipient Provisioning Permissions" entry in the Recipients Permissions topic.

Utilize the Exchange admin center to fix email forwarding

  1. In the Commutation admin center, navigate to Recipients > Mailboxes.

  2. In the listing of user mailboxes, click or tap the mailbox that you want to set up postal service forwarding for, and so click or tap Edit Edit icon..

  3. On the mailbox properties page, click Mailbox Features.

  4. Nether Postal service Catamenia, select View details to view or change the setting for forwarding email messages.

    On this page, you lot can set the maximum number of recipients that the user tin can ship a message to. The recipient limit is unlimited by default. If y'all desire to specify a limit, click the Maximum recipients check box and so blazon the limit in the text box beneath the check box.

  5. Check the Enable forwarding bank check box, and and so click or tap Browse.

  6. On the Select Recipient folio, select a user you want to forward all electronic mail to. Select the Deliver message to both forwarding address and mailbox cheque box if you want both the recipient and the forwarding email accost to become copies of the emails sent. Click or tap OK, and then click or tap Save.

Note

What if you want to forrad emails to an email address exterior your organisation? Yous can use the Exchange Management Beat out to exercise this. See the following example in "Apply the Exchange Direction Crush to configure mail forwarding".

Use the Exchange Direction Beat out to set up mail forwarding

Oasis't used Exchange Management Shell much? Check out the Exchange Management Shell topic to learn more. Take a expect at the Get-Mailbox and Gear up-Mailbox topics for more details on the cmdlets used hither.

This example delivers email to the mailbox of Douglas Kohn and likewise forward all mail sent to Douglas Kohn to an external email address, douglaskohn.parents@fineartschool.cyberspace.

              Ready-Mailbox -Identity "Douglas Kohn" -DeliverToMailboxAndForward $true -ForwardingSMTPAddress "douglaskohn.parents@fineartschool.net"

This example frontward all electronic mail sent to the mailbox of Ken Sanchez, an employee of Contoso Suites, to one of his coworkers, pilarp@contoso.com.

              Set-Mailbox -Identity "Ken Sanchez" -ForwardingAddress "pilarp@contoso.com"

For detailed syntax and parameter information, run into Set-Mailbox.

How do you know this worked?

To make sure that you've successfully set up email forwarding, practice one of the following:

  1. In the Exchange admin center, become to Recipients > Mailboxes.

  2. In the list of user mailboxes, click or tap the mailbox that yous configured electronic mail forwarding for, and then click Edit Edit icon..

  3. On the mailbox backdrop page, click or tap Mailbox Features.

  4. Under Postal service Flow, click or tap View details to view the mail forwarding settings.

Or

Run the post-obit command in the Exchange Management Vanquish.

              Get-Mailbox <identity> | Format-Listing ForwardingSMTPAddress,DeliverToMailboxandForward

Make sure that the forwarding accost is listed in the ForwardingSMTPAddress parameter. Likewise, if the DeliverToMailboxAndForward parameter is set up to $true, messages will exist delivered to the mailbox and to the forwarding address. If the parameter is set to $false, messages are delivered only to the forwarding address.

Stop users

Check out the following topics on how to forward your e-mail to another electronic mail address past using Outlook and Outlook Web App.

  • Frontward e-mail to some other email account

  • Manage email messages by using rules

Additional information

For data about keyboard shortcuts that may apply to the procedures in this topic, run across Keyboard shortcuts in the Commutation admin center.

Having bug? Ask for aid in the Commutation forums. Visit the forums at: Exchange Server, Substitution Online, or Exchange Online Protection.