How to Forward Your Email to a New Address & Set up a Vacation Responder to Notify Senders of Your New Address

STEP 1   Forward All Incoming Mail to Your New Email Address

In your Google email account, do the following...

1. Click the Gear Icon, then Settings.
2. Click the Forwarding & POP/IMAP section at the top of the page.
3. Click the Add a Forwarding Address button.
4. Enter the email address you want to forward to, then click Next.
5. From the Forward a Copy of Incoming Mail, dropdown menu, select the forwarding address you entered.
6. Select Delete Keller Williams Realty, Inc. Mail's Copy from the dropdown menu.
   NOTE: Use this option so your mailbox's storage doesn't fill up, and stop forwarding your mail.
7. Scroll down, and click Save Changes.

STEP 2   Set Up Your Automatic Vacation Responder

From the Settings area of your Google email account, do the following...

1. Click the General settings section at the top of the page.
2. Scroll to the very bottom of the General settings to the Vacation Responder section.
3. Select Vacation Responder: ON.
4. Use the First Day field to select the date you want to start notifying people of your new address.
5. Leave the Last Day field unchecked.
   NOTE: This setting will allow your vacation responder to automatically notify the sender each time they send you a new email as long as the email account remains active.
6. In the Subject field, enter a subject such as [YOURNAME] Has a New Email Address.
7. In the Message field, enter a message in the body of the email such as...
   My new email address is [[email protected]]. Please delete my old email address from the contact info you have for me to no longer receive this auto-response email. You do not need to re-send your previous email, it has automatically been forwarded to my new address.
8. Leave the Only Send a Response to People in My Contacts and Only Send a Repsonse to People in Keller Williams Realty, Inc. settings unchecked.
9. Click Save Changes.