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Forwarding Email from Live@EDU

Important – You must use Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox as the browser when setting up forwarding rules!
  1. Access the Exchange Labs login screen: https://login.live.com/.
  2. Login using your Live@EDU login (e.g.  netid@mail.umw.edu).
  3. If your Inbox is not open, on the task bar, click Mail (or Hotmail).
  4. Select Options in the link found to the right.
  5. From the options listed, select Organize E-mail.
  6. Under the Inbox Rules tab, click on New.
  7. In the pop-up window, you’ll see two drop down menus.
  8. From the first menu, When the message arrives, and: , select Apply to all messages.
  9. From the second menu, Do the following:, select Redirect the message to..
    Redirect to
    The Address Book window will open. (Note: If the Address Book window fails to open, click on the option, Select one).
  10. In the lower portion of the Address Book window, within the To field, enter the mailbox to which you want to forward your e-mail.
  11. Click OK when finished and click save.
  12. The new rule will display in the rule window.

 

Note:  Selecting the Forwarding options will cause your forwarded email to show your name instead of the original sender. Redirect does not have this problem. While the Redirect rule sends email to the alternate account, a copy of the email remains in the Live account.