How to Set Up Email Forwarding in Yahoo
Many email providers offer options for forwarding messages. In fact, Yahoo offers options to forward single messages or set up Yahoo Mail forwarding rules that will automatically send all messages to a different mailbox.
Unfortunately, figuring out how to set up forwarding in Yahoo Mail is less than painless, so we’ve provided step-by-step instructions to forward individual messages, establish automatic email forwarding from Yahoo to a different mailbox, and given you options to forward items from a specific sender out of Yahoo Mail.
📌 Note: Yahoo recently reduced mailbox storage from 1TB to just 20GB. This has caught many users off guard, leading to full inbox warnings and bouncing emails.
If you’re close to the limit, one option is to forward important messages to another account and then remove them from Yahoo to free up space. The Clean Email app can automate finding and deleting old, large, or unwanted emails so you don’t have to do this manually.
How to forward individual messages in Yahoo Mail
Most of the time, people use email forwarding to send specific messages to a colleague or friend so they have the information within the original message.
📌 Forwarded messages can be sent to any email account, not just Yahoo accounts, making it easy to share information across different platforms.
But learning how to forward an email on Yahoo can take a bit if you’re new to this mail provider. Luckily, you can forward messages both in the web app and the mobile app.
How to forward Yahoo emails on the web:
- Open your Yahoo Mail inbox.
- Now, select the message you want to forward. This will open it.
- Once you open the email, click Forward (the arrow pointing to the right). You can find this both above the email subject line and below the body of the message.
- Enter the addresses you’d like to forward the message to, add anything else you’d like, and press Send.
How to forward Yahoo email via the mobile app:
- Open your Yahoo mobile app.
- Tap the message you’d like to forward. This will open the message on your screen.
- Then, click the Forward button at the bottom of your screen.
- Enter the addresses you’d like to forward the message to, add anything else you’d like, and press Send in the top right corner.
📌 Note: If you’re forwarding to free up space, remember Yahoo doesn’t remove the original. Clean Email can bulk delete or archive your messages after they’re forwarded, saving hours of manual work.
How to set up automatic forwarding in Yahoo Mail
Yahoo Mail offers the option to auto-forward all incoming messages to an email address you designate within the settings.
Automatic forwarding sends a copy of incoming messages from your Yahoo Mail account to another email address. By enabling this forwarding feature, you can avoid checking multiple inboxes throughout the day and instead see everything in a single mailbox.
However, Yahoo automatic forwarding is only available to Yahoo Mail Plus subscribers or those who enroll in Access + Forwarding, both of which charge a small fee. Since 2021, automatic email forwarding is no longer available to free Yahoo users.
If you have the credentials, though, you can set up Yahoo Mail automatic forwarding by following these steps:
- Log in to your Yahoo mailbox on the web.
- Click Settings (the gear icon) in the upper right.
- Move down and select More Settings.
- On the left side of the page, click Mailboxes.
- Under Mailbox List, select the address you’d like to set up forwarding for.
- On the right side, scroll down to the section titled Forwarding.
- Enter the email address where you want your Yahoo forwarding to end up and press Verify.
- From here, you will log in to the other address and follow the steps to verify that address. Once this is completed, click save to confirm your changes.
All new messages that are directed to your Yahoo address will be rerouted to the mailbox you specified. through automatic forwarding sends.
To manage your forwarding settings, you can review or update your configuration at any time to ensure your emails are being forwarded as desired.
💡 Note: You can only set up Yahoo automatic forwarding from Yahoo Mail on the web, not the mobile app. However, we have another guide that can help you learn how to forward emails from iPhone if you’re an iPhone user.
How to automatically forward emails from a specific sender in Yahoo
Unfortunately, Yahoo Mail forwarding rules are an all-or-nothing approach, meaning there isn’t a way to automatically forward emails from a specific sender in Yahoo.
However, what you can do is create Yahoo rules that filter messages from a specific sender into a dedicated folder, then forward the messages you filter out to the mailbox you’d like them in. Yahoo allows only one email address to be added for automatic forwarding at a time.
To set up a filter in Yahoo Mail on web:
- Log in to your Yahoo Mail inbox.
- Click on Settings (the gear) in the upper right.
- Move down and select More Settings.
- On the left side, select Filters.
- Choose Add New Filters, then complete the information on the left side.
- Once you’re done, click Save to finalize the filter setup.
After the filter is created, all messages from the sender you specified will now go into the dedicated folder you specified.
📌 Tip: During the first week after setting up the filter, review your filtered messages to ensure the rule is working as intended.
You can then follow the steps to learn how to forward Yahoo Mail to Gmail or any other mail provider you’d like. It’s a bit time-consuming since you have to forward them individually, but it works if you don’t want to set up Yahoo forwarding for every single message that comes to your mailbox.
Keep Your Inbox Organized With Clean Email
Forwarding certain messages can help you clear out items from your inbox. However, doing that alone will not help you use Yahoo effectively. Therefore, you need an inbox management tool like Clean Email.
Clean Email isn’t an email client, which means it cannot replace Yahoo or handle Yahoo email forwarding for you. Instead, this app can perform a variety of tasks that help you filter, sort, delete, and unsubscribe so your inbox is optimized to match your needs.
Clean Email offers several advanced tools that can help you automate routine email management tasks and improve your inbox experience in general:
- Auto Clean that lets you set up email rules that run based on the criteria you specify to help you keep messages organized and remove unnecessary items from your mailbox.
- Sender Settings let you block, archive, move, or label messages from a specific sender and apply these actions to both new and existing emails.
- The Screener tool keeps items from unknown senders out of your Inbox and places them in a specific quarantine folder. Then, you can go review these intercepted messages and tell Clean Email whether you want them in your mailbox or would rather block the sender.
- Similarly, the Unsubscriber tool prevents marketing emails and messages from cluttering your inbox by helping you mass unsubscribe from messages based on the sender’s domain.
You can also forward individual emails from inside Clean Email while managing them, making it easy to handle forwarding as part of your cleanup process.
What’s more, the company focuses on privacy and security, which means your data is never sold nor shared with anyone.
The app is compatible with IMAP-based mail providers and can be used through the web, macOS, Android, and iOS.
Why Do I Need Yahoo Email Forwarding?
If you’ve been using Yahoo Mail for any amount of time, then you’re probably aware of the variety of ways you can customize Yahoo Mail. You can also master email forwarding with Yahoo. But why do you need to do that?
Well, there are instances where forwarding messages just makes sense. For example, you may need to send a message with tickets for an upcoming event to your friends, which means you’d need to know how to forward individual items to others so they receive the attachments and other details.
Other times, you may want to migrate all incoming messages (or messages from specific senders) to a separate mailbox so you can keep information organized. Forwarding or filtering can also help manage unwanted emails, reducing inbox clutter caused by spam and other irrelevant messages.
For these reasons and others, you need to know how to forward Yahoo Mail to other places.
How to Stop Mail Forwarding in Yahoo
You may want to stop mail forwarding in Yahoo if you’ve switched back to using your Yahoo inbox regularly, no longer need copies sent to another address, or want to prevent messages from being stored in multiple places.
To disable forwarding:
- Open Yahoo Mail on the web.
- Click Settings → More Settings → Mailboxes.
- Select your Yahoo address.
- Scroll to Forwarding and delete the forwarding address.
- Click Save to apply changes.
All new messages will now stay in your Yahoo inbox.
Yahoo Mail Forwarding - FAQs
Can you forward Yahoo emails to another email?
Yes, you can! Yahoo offers options to forward individual messages or set up automatic forwarding to another address. Yahoo email forwarding creates a new message that includes a copy of the original along with sender and recipient information.
How do I set up mail forwarding in Yahoo?
Forwarding email from Yahoo is fairly simple. You just need to go into the Settings menu and navigate to Mailboxes → Forwarding to active this feature.
Is Yahoo Mail Forwarding free?
Unfortunately, Yahoo email forwarding is not free. You must either sign up for Yahoo Mail Plus or subscribe to the Access + Forwarding service. Additionally, Yahoo Mail forwarding is not available in all locales.
Why can't I forward an email in Yahoo?
If you’ve tried to forward a message and it’s not going through, it could be that the address you’re sending to is flagging the message as spam.
Where is the forward button on Yahoo email?
Yahoo Mail makes it easy to forward messages since the Forward button appears at both the top and bottom of a message once you open it on the web. For Yahoo Mail mobile app users, the Forward button appears in the bottom menu bar when you open messages.
Can Yahoo Mail auto-forward specific emails from one sender?
No, Yahoo Mail’s auto-forwarding applies to all incoming emails. You can filter messages from one sender into a folder and then forward them manually.
