Forwarding student email to a personal email

Forwarding student email to a personal email

***NOTE: Students can setup their student email to forward to another email but if they want to communicate with their instructor or other classmates, then they need to use their student email to communicate***

Turn on automatic forwarding

On your computer, open your student email, by going to egcc.edu/gateway and selecting student email.

Once you log into your email, follow the steps below:
  1. In the top right, click the cog wheel Settings.
  2. Click Settings.
  3. Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.
  4. In the "Forwarding" section, click Add a forwarding address.
  5. Enter the email address you want to forward messages to.
  6. Click Next and then Proceed and then OK.
  7. A verification message will be sent to that address. Click the verification link in that message.
  8. Go back to the settings page for the Gmail account you want to forward messages from, and refresh your browser.
  9. Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.
  10. In the "Forwarding" section, select Forward a copy of incoming mail to.
  11. Choose what you want to happen with the Gmail copy of your emails. We recommend Keep Gmail's copy in the Inbox.
  12. At the bottom of the page, click Save Changes.

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