Email groups and forwarding

Email forwarding

You may wish to have your email forwarded from one account to another. You might have a commercial provider account such as AOL or Comcast from which you'd like to retrieve all your mail, or possibly the University has issued you one account as a student and another as a paid instructor. In either case, it can be troublesome to retrieve email from more than one account, and it is beneficial to forward one account to the other so that all your email is received through one account. Here's how:

Google Account

• 1. In email, click settings

  2. In the general tab, scroll to vacation responder

  3. Click the "vacation responder on" radio button

  4. Enter the first active and last active dates

  5. Enter a subject and message

  6. Click save changes

Pre-Google: Setting Your Preferred Email Address

In order to receive your mail in one account only, you need to have your email automatically forwarded from the other account. This is called setting your preferred email account.

Example: You have two accounts: jones010 and jone0034. You want to receive all your email at jone0034. You must set the preferred address for jones010 to jone0034. To do this:

• 1. Use your web browser to go to the Email Account Management URL at: www.umn.edu/dirtools.

  2. Enter the x500 username for the account you want to have mail automatically forwarded from ("jones010" in the above example); then enter your password. If you don't know your password, call 612-301-HELP.

  3. Press the submit button.

  4. Go to set e-mail forwarding and auto reply. Under send e-mail to, click on the other option button and enter your preferred address, i.e., the account address at which you would like to receive your mail ("jone0034@umn.edu" in the above example). 

     1. 1. 1. Omit any reference to "tc", "maroon", "gold", or "garnet" that may appear in your address (for example "jone0034@maroon.tc.umn.edu" should be entered as "jone0034@umn.edu").

  5. When you are done, press the submit button and follow any subsequent directions from your browser.