How to set up email forwards
How to set up email forwards with other popular email services
Now, that you have your catchy email address, how do you configure it to be used with your email service? Say you have set forward@ing.me to forward emails to your.account@gmail.com or your.account@hotmail.com or your.account@yahoo.com. How do you configure the email client to work with your new address?
AOL
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Gmail (Google mail)
Just go to any of these links:
- https://mail.google.com/mail/#settings/accounts
- https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#settings/accounts
- https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#settings/accounts
and then add your forward@ing.me as another email account.
Recently Google started to require an external SMTP server. If you don’t have one, you can find plenty of free services allowing sending few thousand emails per day.
Once you finish the set up, Google will send you a confirmation email. Once you verify it, you will be all done.
More detail information about sending email from a different email via Google mail can be found here.
Outlook
A comprehensive guide can be found here.
Outlook.com (Hotmail, MSN, etc)
Go to “Options” > “More email settings” > “Your email accounts” > “Add a send only account”
Click on “Advanced options”.
Select “Send emails using Outlook’s server (recipient may see your Outlook address)”.
Then only enter your new email address you have just registered with us and press “Next”. Then follow the verification instructions.
Yahoo!
You will need to go via the following menus:
Yahoo! Mail > Options > Mail Options > Accounts > Add Account
More details can be found on their website.
Other
Easy Google search will find you instruction for all other clients.
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