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Forwarding to or from UMN Gmail
Forwarding UMN Gmail to Physics
For anyone who wants to forward umn.edu email to Physics….
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Click the spoke icon at top-right of the page. A menu will appear, select “Mail Settings”
Select the “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab
Click the “Add a Forwarding Address” button
Enter your physics (or astro) email address and click “ok”
Select the 'Forward a copy of incoming mail to…' option and select your forwarding address from the drop-down menu.
Select the action you'd like your messages to take from the drop-down menu. You can choose to keep Gmail's copy of the message in your inbox, or you can send it automatically to All Mail or Trash.
Click Save Changes.
Next, we can optionally set up so that umn gmail does not put anything into the Spam Folder and instead forwards on “spam” messages to the address that was set up above (this is only useful if you don't want to trust gmail's spam detection).
First, go into settings.
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Next, click 'Filters'
Click 'Create a new filter'
Set it up as follows:
Fill the box as follows:
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Then click “Create Filter with this Search”
A warning will pop up, click 'Ok'
Check the box next to “Never send it to Spam”
Click “Create Filter”
Now you can log out and all mail will be forwarded