Step by Step - How to Enable Forwarding in Gmail

Note: The following instructions are for Gmail web only.

  1. Open Gmail

  2. Click on Settings in header -

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  3. A side-panel will open. Click on ‘See All Settings’ button -

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  4. Now you will land on the Settings page in the ‘General’ tab. Go to the ‘Forwarding and POP/IMAP’ tab -

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  5. On this page, click on ‘Add a Forwarding Address’ button -

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  6. A popup will open. Type ‘[email protected]’ and press ‘Next’ -

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  7. A page will open saying -

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    Click ‘Proceed’.

  8. You will get a Popup saying -

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    Click ‘Ok’. Don’t close or refresh the page.

  9. Now ask us for this code on our Whatsapp business account and we will share it with you.

  10. Enter the code in space provided on the same page and click on ‘Verify’, like so -

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  11. Congrats, you have successfully added our email as a forwardee ID.

  12. In the search bar on top of page, type your search query [relating to emails you want forwarded] and press Enter. Search query can be anything like “zerodha” or “indmoney”etc.

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    All emails matching your search criterion will be displayed.

  13. In the search bar, at the right, you will see a Tweak icon like this -

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    Click this icon.

  14. You will see a pop-down open up:

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    Click on ‘Create Filter’ link at the bottom of this Pop down.

  15. You will get a second popdown like this:

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  16. Look at the 5th checkbox from top - “Forward it to:”.

    Check the checkbox and choose our ID ‘[email protected]’ from the dropdown which says ‘Choose an address..’.

  17. Click on ‘Create Filter’ button.

  18. You will get a success message saying that you have successfully set up forwarding. Congratulations!