How to Push Email From Your Outlook to Your Cell Phone
Microsoft Outlook is convenient not only for performing in-office duties such as emailing interoffice memos or adding tasks to to-do lists, but also for checking email while you are traveling. Since most people make use of their cell phones for both business and personal reasons, setting up Outlook to forward email to a cell phone is an efficient way to keep track of office activities and information.
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Instructions
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Open Microsoft Outlook and click the "Tools" button located at the top of the Outlook toolbar.
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Select "Rules and Alerts."
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Click the button labeled "New Rule" once the program brings up the "Rules and Alerts" dialog box.
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Select the radio button option "Start from a blank rule." This option will allow you to create a new rule that is not dependent on any other rule that you may have created. Click "Next."
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Select the conditions for the new rule. It is advisable to select all the conditions available. This will select all mail received using this rule. Click "Next."
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Fill out all the rule requirements pertaining to the rule conditions that you have set with the "Edit rule description" box. Click "Next."
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Define any exceptions to your created rules and click "Next."
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Select "Forward it to people or distribution list" in the section entitled "Select Actions." This will forward all mail to your desired location.
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Click the "People and distribution list" link located in the "Edit Rule" box. Enter your cell phone email address within this area. This action will forward the received email to your cell phone.
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Add any exceptions to your forwarding rule and create a name for your rule. Upon clicking "Next," you will be able to receive your Outlook email on your cell phone.
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Tips & Warnings
The instructions are based on Microsoft Outlook 2003. The options for setting rules in Microsoft Outlook 2007 are slightly different, though the process is similar.
