What is Email Forwarding?

Have an old email address that you still rely on but hate to give out to people anymore? Maybe it has a precious name, is from an old provider or is just downright embarrassing. Thankfully, most email providers nowadays offer email forwarding.

Email forwarding works a lot like actual mail forwarding. If you move to a new house or apartment, you can have the post office forward your mail to your new address while you change your address over with everyone who sends you mail. That way, when they receive a letter addressed to your previous address, they send it to your new one instead. 

Email forwarding is like that. When you tell an email account to forward, it'll automatically send a copy of any emails you receive to another email address you specify. That way, you can see all of those emails in another inbox and needn't access that old account anymore.

Practical Tip of the Day:

Unlike postal mail forwarding, email forwarding doesn't expire so you can set it up and forget about it.