<p>This may sound stupid, but how do I forward my emails from my mccombs and ut email to a gmail account? I can't figure anything out on microsoft outlook. There's supposed to be a "rules" option according to some website, but it's not there.</p>
<p><a href=“https://mail.utexas.edu/cgi-bin/autheid[/url]”>https://mail.utexas.edu/cgi-bin/autheid</a></p>
<p>Go to that link and click “forwarding options” and you should be covered.</p>
<p>So that includes my mccombs email too?</p>
<p>No, you can not forward McCombs email. The only work around is if you already use outlook on your computer, you can set up a rule to forward ALL incoming mail (or some broad thing like send is from <em>@</em>.* or w/e) to another email address. But that results in it being an automated manual forward, and is not really the same as a regular account forward.</p>
<p>I used GMail exclusively, and did so through my freshman year too, but now I have switched to using my mccombs email as my primary business/school/work email and leaving gmail for spam and random accounts at websites I don’t care about. I installed outlook 2010 and it’s great because mccombs uses an exchange server, so it’s all “pushed” instantly and sync’d with everything.</p>
<p>I have it set up on my iPhone too, so all my contacts are shared across phone and computer. If I change somebody’s street address in outlook, it is INSTANTLY changed on my iPhone too, allowing me to get directions to their house pulled up easily. Also I never have to worry about losing my contacts when I lose/break my phone (or never having to create one of those “my phone broke” facebook groups). And the calendars sync up, so if I’m in class and the professor mentions a test or study group or something coming up, I can put it in my phone and it’s instantly on my desktop.</p>
<p>And I can use that web version of outlook to view mail/contacts/calendar too, for when I’m not near my actual computer. If I send an email from there, it looks and acts like I sent it from my computer. Nobody knows the difference. Exchange servers are really nice.</p>