Hotmail: set up forwarding - is that possible?

If you want to receive your messages from Hotmail via another mail account, you must set up forwarding. We'll show you how it's done.

Set up mail forwarding with Hotmail

1. Open the Hotmail website and log in to your account if necessary.
2. Click on the gear in the top right and select the "Options".
3. Under the "Manage account" category you will now find the "Email forwarding" function.
4. Activate the "Forward emails to another email account" option and enter the email address.
5. If desired, you can also activate the option "Save a copy of the forwarded emails in the Outlook.com inbox".
6. Forwarding is set up using the "Save" button.

We will show you how to recover deleted emails from Hotmail in an emergency in the next practical tip.