Email, How to set up email forwarding
This page contains information about email redirection for your Illinois email.
Important Disclaimers Regarding Email Redirection
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We encourage all University affiliates to use their provided campus mailbox to ensure all University email is properly delivered. By law, your @illinois.edu email is is subject to audit. This means that if you use your personal email account for @illinois.edu business, that account is also subject to audit. Similarly, if you use your University account for personal purposes, those emails are subject to audit as well.
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We cannot control what happens to email when you forward or redirect it to another email provider. We've seen cases where email sent to @illinois.edu and redirected to another domain, e.g. @yahoo.com, has been tagged as spam by the receiving email domain. We are not responsible for missing mail to your personal email after it has been forwarded.
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Current faculty and staff are not able to use EDE to set up forwarding for their email. Please see Privacy & Cybersecurity, Faculty and Staff Email Auto-forwarding Retirement FAQ for more information.
How to set up email forwarding
Follow these steps to change where your email messages are delivered.
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Go to the Electronic Directory Editor (EDE) and log in with your NetID and password.
- Once you have logged into EDE, find the 'mail' field and enter the address depending on where you want email to go (see options below).
- NOTE: Make sure that you type this email address correctly, or you will not receive your email.
Important: Do not leave this field blank or you will not receive your email! DO NOT ENTER YOURNETID@ILLINOIS.EDU
- NOTE: Make sure that you type this email address correctly, or you will not receive your email.
- Click the Apply button at the top of the page to save your changes.
NOTE: Changes will take up to 4 hrs to take effect. Until then, you should check for emails in both the old and new locations.
Option 1: To receive email to your university Exchange account:
Enter: yournetid@mx.uillinois.edu(Faculty, staff, graduate and professional students with Exchange accounts, or undergraduates with Office 365 accounts).
Option 2: To receive email to your university Google Apps @ Illinois (Gmail) email inbox:
Enter: yournetid@g.illinois.edu
Option 3: To receive email to your personal email address:
Enter: your personal email address (eg. jdoe@gmail.com)
IMPORTANT: If your university email account is an Exchange inbox, you will also need to follow the steps in this article: Office 365, Email, Exchange, Forwarding Exchange Email to Another Account.