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title: "Auto forward emails from exchange to your gmail (or other) email accounts"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/8/23/auto-forward-emails-from-exchange-to-your-gmail-or-other-ema.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/8/23/auto-forward-emails-from-exchange-to-your-gmail-or-other-ema.html"
published: "2007-08-23T16:14:05"
updated: "2007-08-23T16:14:05"
tags: []
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I work with various clients and some of them have internal email aliases for me. What I usually do is have them automatically forward all my email messages for the internal account to my google email account where it is…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Auto forward emails from exchange to your gmail (or other) email accounts

By Roy Osherove August 23, 2007

**Historical article** · Originally published August 23, 2007; technical details may be outdated.

I work with various clients and some of them have internal email aliases for me. What I usually do is have them automatically forward all my email messages for the internal account to my google email account where it is indexed, searchable and I can reply through there.

Some admins don't know how to set up exchange to automaticlaly forward any internal emails  to your external account, so I asked [Daniel Petri](http://www.petri.co.il/), who is a god for sysadmins everywhere.

here is his reply, for future reference:

> Hi Roy,
>
> You can do that by creating a contact for your external email (gmail), then, on the user's properties tabs in Active Directory users and computers, go to **Exchange General > Mail Delivery**, and add that contact as a forwarding address.
>
> Daniel


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