How to disable email forwarding to my gmail account from another account
In this article, we are going to tell you how to disable email forwarding to my Gmail account from another account. If you ever added email forwarding from another account to your Gmail account, there is no way to disable this forwarding except to ask another person to disable it. However, there is a way you can adopt to do it yourself.
Search for a mail by [email protected] with the subject containing the text Gmail Forwarding Confirmation. This is the email you received when you set email forwarding in your accounts. Scroll down the text body of this email to find a link to cancel email forwarding. In my case, the text body had this:
If you accidentally clicked the link, but you do not want to allow [email protected] to automatically forward messages to your address, click this link to cancel this verification:
followed by a link. Clicking the link redirects you to the page that confirms that you have canceled the email forwarding and will no longer receive emails. This link seems to be permanent and works after many years.
You can also add a filtering rule on your target account. This will delete or archive all orwarded emails.
Here you can see how to turn automatic forwarding On or Off.
Turn on automatic forwarding
- On your computer, open Gmail using the account you want to forward messages from. You can only forward messages for a single Gmail address, and not an email group or alias.
- In the top right, click Settings
See all settings.
- Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.
- In the “Forwarding” section, click Add a forwarding address.
- Enter the email address you want to forward messages to.
- Click Next
Proceed
OK.
- A verification message will be sent to that address. Click the verification link in that message.
- Go back to the settings page for the Gmail account you want to forward messages from and refresh your browser.
- Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.
- In the “Forwarding” section, select Forward a copy of incoming mail to.
- Choose what you want to happen with the Gmail copy of your emails. We recommend keeping Gmail’s copy in the Inbox.
- At the bottom of the page, click Save Changes.
Turn off automatic forwarding
- On your computer, open Gmail using the account you want to stop forwarding messages from.
- In the top right, click Settings
See all settings.
- Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.
- In the “Forwarding” section, click Disable forwarding.
- At the bottom, click Save Changes.