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How do I forward my Exchange e-mail to another e-mail account?

E-mail forwarding: When you forward your e-mail from the Exchange server to another e-mail account, the Exchange server simply passes the e-mail on to the e-mail account you chose. It does not put a copy of the e-mail in your inbox or anywhere else in your Exchange account. When you forward your e-mail from Exchange, you lose many of the benefits of Exchange.

To set a forward on your Exchange account go to http://exchangeforwarding.uconn.edu/ then follow the directions below.

The risks of forwarding are listed below.

  1. UITS cannot recover the mail being forwarded off of the Exchange server.
  2. UITS cannot recover the deleted e-mail once it is forwarded off of the Exchange server.
  3. UITS does not retain a backup of your e-mail.
  4. UITS does not retain a copy of the forwarded e-mail on the Exchange server.
  5. Message tracking is disabled when forwarding is put into place.
  6. If you are forwarding with your e-mail client (Outlook, Entourage, Eudora etc.) there will be a copy left in the inbox so your Exchange mailbox will eventually exceed your allocated size limit.
  7. If you are forwarding with your e-mail client you should request that your UConn VM account be shut off. There is a lot of SPAM coming from the VM server, so when you forward your mail to a different address you are actually SPAMming the ISP* and they may add UConn addresses to their "black list".
  8. ISP technical standards. AOL
  9. If you forward your Exchange e-mail to another mail server, and that mail server rejects the message for some reason, ( Spam, Invalid forwarding address, Message exceeds size limitations, etc. ) the original sender does not get a message back stating that the message was not delivered.

Updated: 9/18/2006