How to Set up Email Forwarding With Verizon Email

If you're a Verizon customer, you can set up your account to forward messages from your other email accounts directly into your Verizon email inbox. This involves activating the POP ("Post Office Protocol") function on your secondary email address and linking it to your Verizon email account.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

Things You’ll Need:

• Secondary email account with POP capability

1. Access the email account you want to link with your Verizon email using a POP setup.
2. Go into your "Settings" or "Advanced Options" menu, or whatever equivalent your secondary email address provides.
3. Select the email forwarding option, or its equivalent. Click through to bring up the fields in which you will enter your Verizon email account information.
4. Add your Verizon email address, in its complete "[e-mail]" format in the field which asks for the email address from which you wish to forward messages. You will also need to know the name of the incoming and outgoing Verizon servers, which you can attain from Verizon customer service, if they aren't included with the Verizon CD-ROM you received when you signed up for Verizon Internet service.
5. Enable the POP function by checking the box provided. Some email clients give you the option to choose from POP or IMAP. Generally, you will only need to activate the POP option.
6. Send yourself an email, to the secondary account you want to link to your Verizon email account. Check that email address to verify that the message was delivered to your inbox, then proceed to log in to your Verizon email to check and see if the message is there. It should be, if you completed the preceding steps correctly.
7. Repeat this process to set up every other email account you hold, if you want to enable message forwarding from all your email accounts to your Verizon inbox. The exact steps will differ with each different email provider, so anticipate the need to interpret the different menu options to find the ones you seek. If you get lost, access your email provider's help menu to find out where the POP functions are located.

Tips & Warnings

• If you encounter difficulties, you can find answers to common troubleshooting questions directly on the Verizon website (see Resources below).
• You can also forward your Verizon messages to another email account for a modest additional monthly charge. Contact a Verizon customer service representative for specific information.
• Email forwarding might not be possible through some of the web's free email providers. However, most of the major ones (Hotmail, Yahoo!, Gmail) enable this feature, and you should be able to set up the forwarding with little difficulty.

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