Setting Up Email Forwarding for Your Pima Student Email

Overview

You can configure your student email account so that it automatically forwards incoming email to another email address.

Steps to Take

  1. Navigate to gmail.com and enter your Pima credentials or sign in to MyPima and select See All Emails under Student Email.
  2. In the upper-right corner of your student Gmail page, select Settings (the gear icon), and then click See all settings.A screenshot of the upper-right corner of the GMail web page, showing the gear icon to click to open the Settings panel.
  3. On the Settings page, select Forwarding and POP/IMAP.
    A screenshot of the Settings page with the Forwarding and pop slash imap tab selected.
  4. Under Forwarding, select Add a forwarding address.
    A screenshot of the Settings page showing only the Forwarding section of the pop slash imap tab, where the Add a forwarding address button is located.
  5. In the box that opens, enter the email address to which you want to forward your student emails, and then select Next.
    A screenshot of the pop-up window that asks for confirmation of the email address to which Pima email should be forwarded.
  6. A pop-up window asks you to confirm that you are adding the requested email address.
    A screenshot of the pop-up window asking for confirmation of the email address to which the Pima email should be forwarded.
    After you confirm you are trying to add a forwarding email, that target email account receives a confirmation email.
  7. Open the email account you are trying to forward to, and then locate the forwarding confirmation message like the one shown here.
    A screenshot of the email confirmation message, in which you click a link to confirm that you want to forward your Pima email to the second email address.
  8. In the email, click the link to confirm the request.
  9. In the Confirmation pop-up, click Confirm.
    A screenshot of the pop-up window in which you should click the final button needed to confirm you want to forward your email.
    You should now see a confirmation success message like the one shown here.A screenshot of the pop-up window announcing success in setting up the forwarding of your email.
  10. Make sure that the Forward a copy of incoming mail to option is set.
    A screenshot of the Settings page showing only the Forwarding section of the pop slash imap tab, where you can configure the system to keep a copy of any of the forwarded email.
  11. Set your preference for how you want your email to appear in your inbox. This applies only to your student email and does not affect your forwarded copy.
    A screenshot of the available options for handling forwarded emails. The options are to keep a copy, mark the copy as red, archive the copy, or delete the copy.
    The top of the Gmail window displays a banner like the one shown here for a week after you have made this change. 
    A screenshot showing the banner that appears across the top of the Gmail window, which reminds you that you’re forwarding your Pima email to a different email address.

 

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