How to Set up Email Forwarding
Summary
Email forwarding allows you to redirect email sent to your EarthLink Email address to another address. This can be helpful when you want to keep a copy or automatically share your email to more than one address.
Requirements
In order to setup email forwarding, you will need to log into EarthLink WebMail. Note: The following directions assume you have not activated email forwarding previously.
- Login to EarthLink WebMail with your EarthLink email address
- Click on the Preferences link on the top right of the page just above the blue bar.
- Under the General tab, look for the Email Forwarding section.
- Click the On radial/circle button to access Email Forwarding options.
- Enter the email address you want to forward your EarthLink email to in the Forward to Addresses box.
- Click the slider button under Enable Forwarding to activate the forward.
- If you want to keep a copy of forwarded emails in your EarthLink mailbox as well, click the Keep Sent Copy slider to activate it.
- Click the Save button - IMPORTANT: YOU WILL NEED TO DO ONE MORE STEP TO COMPLETE FORWARDING SETUP.
- You will need to confirm your forwarding changes by entering a code sent to the cell phone on your account. Check the confirmation box and then click Send Code.
- Check your text messages and enter the code sent into the entry box and click Submit Code.
- You are Done!
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