Advertisement As Gmail and Outlook are These new Gmail features from the Gmail redesign will help you manage your email better, faster, and with less hassle., they are both offering a way to prevent your emails from being forwarded. If this is a feature you’ve been waiting for, read on to find out how to use it with either email provider. How to Prevent Emails Being Forwarded in Gmail One of Gmail’s newest features is the ability to prevent recipients from forwarding emails by turning on Confidential Mode. Here’s how to do that:. Open a compose window in Gmail. Click the Confidential Mode button.
In the window that opens, you can choose an expiration date for the email. If you are not concerned about the email remaining in their inbox, you can set the expiration date for the maximum of five years. No expiration date is not an option. You can also enter an optional passcode to require them to open the email. Click Save.
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You should see a message at the bottom of the email that indicates that you are sending a confidential email. You can make changes to these settings before sending by clicking Edit or removing confidential mode by clicking the X. In addition to not being able to forward your message, recipients will also be unable to to copy, paste, download, or print your message. If the email is sent to a Gmail recipient, there will be no forward button and you can’t right-click or copy the content with your mouse. Non-Gmail recipients will receive an email with a link they can click. And of course as the screenshots above demonstrate, Gmail can’t stop recipients from taking screenshots of the emails.
How to Prevent Emails Being Forwarded in Outlook Outlook.com users are getting a similar feature rolled out to them as well. In addition to preventing the email from being forwarded, Outlook will encrypt it as well. To prevent users from forwarding your emails, do the following:.
Create a new message. Click the Encrypt button, next to the Attach button. In the dropdown menu, click Encrypt and prevent forwarding. If you change your mind before sending the email, click Remove encryption. Microsoft Office documents you attach to will also be encrypted and if the attachment is forwarded, the recipient will be unable to open it. If you feel that Gmail and Outlook are not offering enough security features, there are several Fed up with government surveillance?
Sales staff is using Outlook 2010 with latest updates. When the sales staff forwards the email to the design department who is using Outlook for the Mac (which is using Outlook 2011; again all updates applied) the design department is unable to open the attachments. Open Microsoft Office Outlook 2011. If you have just installed Outlook 2011 it will show in your Dock. If you see a Welcome to Outlook screen, click Add Click E-mail Account. Now we need to manually enter in our settings similar to the following. Enter your email address, password and user name.
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Configure email forwarding for a mailbox. 7/5/2018. 3 minutes to read.
Contributors. In this article Email forwarding lets you to set up a mailbox to forward email messages sent to a user's mailbox to another user's mailbox in or outside of your organization.
Use the Exchange admin center and the Exchange Management Shell You can use either the Exchange Admin Center (EAC) or Exchange Management Shell to set up email forwarding. You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure or procedures. To see what permissions you need, see the 'Recipient Provisioning Permissions' entry in the topic.
Use the Exchange admin center to set up email forwarding. In the Exchange Admin Center, navigate to Recipients Mailboxes. In the list of user mailboxes, click or tap the mailbox that you want to set up mail forwarding for, and then click or tap Edit. On the mailbox properties page, click Mailbox Features. Under Mail Flow, select View details to view or change the setting for forwarding email messages. On this page, you can set the maximum number of recipients that the user can send a message to.
The recipient limit is unlimited by default. If you want to specify a limit, click the Maximum recipients check box and then type the limit in the text box beneath the check box.
Check the Enable forwarding check box, and then click or tap Browse. On the Select Recipient page, select a user you want to forward all email to.
Select the Deliver message to both forwarding address and mailbox check box if you want both the recipient and the forwarding email address to get copies of the emails sent. Click or tap OK, and then click or tap Save. Note What if you want to forward emails to an email address outside your organization? You can use the Exchange Management Shell to do this.
See the following example in 'Use the Exchange Management Shell to configure mail forwarding'. Use the Exchange Management Shell to set up mail forwarding Haven't used Exchange Management Shell much? Check out the topic to learn more. Take a look at the and topics for more details on the cmdlets used here. This example delivers email to the mailbox of Douglas Kohn and, at the same time, forwards all mail sent to Douglas Kohn to [email protected].
Set-Mailbox -Identity 'Douglas Kohn' -DeliverToMailboxAndForward $true -ForwardingSMTPAddress '[email protected]' This example forwards all email sent to the mailbox of Ken Sanchez, an employee of Contoso Suites, to one of his coworkers, [email protected]. Set-Mailbox -Identity 'Ken Sanchez' -ForwardingSMTPAddress '[email protected]' For detailed syntax and parameter information, see. How do you know this worked? To make sure that you've successfully set up email forwarding, do one of the following:. In the Exchange admin center, go to Recipients Mailboxes. In the list of user mailboxes, click or tap the mailbox that you configured email forwarding for, and then click Edit. On the mailbox properties page, click or tap Mailbox Features.
Under Mail Flow, click or tap View details to view the mail forwarding settings. Or Run the following command in the Exchange Management Shell.
Get-Mailbox Format-List ForwardingSMTPAddress,DeliverToMailboxandForward Make sure that the forwarding address is listed in the ForwardingSMTPAddress parameter. Also, if the DeliverToMailboxAndForward parameter is set to $true, messages will be delivered to the mailbox and to the forwarding address.
If the parameter is set to $false, messages are delivered only to the forwarding address. End users Check out the following topics on how to forward your email to another email address by using Outlook and Outlook Web App. Additional information For information about keyboard shortcuts that may apply to the procedures in this topic, see. Having problems? Ask for help in the Exchange forums. Visit the forums at:,.