Forwarding your Mail.mil email to another .mil or .gov email address

1. Forwarding your Mail.mil email to another .mil or .gov email address Presented by: Michael J. Danberry Last update / review: 3 January 2014 Follow this guide to set up forwarding of your Mail.mil email to another .mil or .gov email address, eliminating the need to check your OWA to read and respond to your email. You must be logged into your Mail.mil OWA to follow the rest of this guide https://web.mail.mil Please check for the most current version of this presentation at: http://militarycac.com/files/forwarding_EEMail.pdf

2. Click Options, See All Options… in the upper right corner of the page

3. Click Organize E-Mail, New

4. In the 1st drop down, select: [Apply to all messages] [Apply to all messages]

5. In the 2nd drop down, select: Redirect the message to… [Apply to all messages]

6. Click: * Select people… [Apply to all messages]

7. Manually type in the email address you want to forward to. Click OK NOTE: This will be at the bottom of your screen myemailaddress@something.mil NOTE: If you want your emails to forward to your AKO email address, you will need to make sure you type it like this: user.name@mail.us.army.milNOTE2: Once your AKO is permanently forwarded to mail.mil, DO NOT do this, as it will cause a loop and you will never get your email

8. You may be asked to give your rule a name Forward to my other .mil account

9. You are now complete. Send an email to your Mail.mil email address and verify that you get it at your other .mil or .gov email address Presentation created by: Michael J. Danberry https://MilitaryCAC.com NOTE: You will want to occasionally visit https://web.mail.mil and make sure all of your emails are actually being forwarded. Emails that are not directly sent to you (e.g. to a distribution list) may not forward automatically.