University Services

Set up email forwarding so that emails are automatically forwarded to your personal email account.

Email forwarding will stay active after your account is suspended, until the account is permanently deleted. This will be four weeks after you graduate.

Log into your student account.

Click on the gear icon, select Settings from the menu

• Select the tab Forwarding and POP/IMAP

• Click on Add a forwarding address

• In the popup box, enter the email address you want your emails forwarding to and click Next

• You will be asked to confirm the addition of the forwarding address. Click Proceed to confirm.

• A Confirmation code will be sent to the forwarding address.

Log into the email address you want your account forwarding to and open the email with University of Sheffield Forwarding Confirmation in the subject, and click on the link provided to confirm the email forwarding.

A Confirmation Success! page will appear telling you that your forwarding is now setup.

By default, the forwarding although configured is set to Disabled. So you will need to activate your forwarding.

• Click on Gear symbol, select Settings from the menu

• Select the tab Forwarding and POP/IMAP. You will now see you forwarding address listed.

• Select Forward a copy of incoming mail to, to activate your forwarding