11/2006
Technology Help Desk (631) 244-3445
Discussion:
Some of our users prefer to use a Hotmail, MSN, Netscape or other account as their primary e-mail. They would like to forward to that account all mail targeted at their Dowling e-mail account. You can setup automatic forwarding by following the instructions below.
Dowling considers "your-email@dowling.edu" to be its primary means of official communication to you. After you setup a forwarding rule, you should still login periodically at http://email.dowling.edu to ensure that your mailbox does not become full. If your mailbox fills to capacity then your forwarding rule will stop working.
Procedure:
- Login to GroupWise.
- Click the Options button, middle button at the top.
- Click the fourth button at the top-center named Rules.
- Pull down the menu next to Type: and select Forward.
- Click the Create button
- In the Rule name: field type "Forward all"
- Leave the fields below "Define Optional Conditions" blank - the rule will apply to all incoming messages.
- Below that, in the To: field type the destination mailbox, e.g. "my-email@anotherISP.com". You may type more than one destination mailbox with a comma between each, like "myname@hotmail.com, myothername@yahoo.com".
- Optional: in the Message field type a note that reminds you where this message came from, like "Auto-forwarded from my-email@dowling.edu".
- Click the Save button at the bottom.
- Groupwise warns you that the rule will apply to ALL new messages. This is what you want. Click OK, then click the Save button again.
- Observe that your new Forward All rule has been created.
- Click the "Close" button to return to GroupWise.
Now send yourself an e-mail and check that it arrives in your Dowling mailbox. Then check your destination email account to see that it has arrived - this usually takes only a few minutes.
Your mail will continue to arrive at Dowling even though it is being auto-forwarded to your other account. You should still check your Dowling email account at least once a month, and delete unneeded messages so that your mailbox does not fill to capacity.