Forwarding Emails Sent to @g.ucla.edu Email Address

As an Anderson student, you have access to two distinct email accounts, an official Anderson email on Microsoft Office 356 with the format firstname.lastname.gradyear@anderson.ucla.edu, and an optional Google Apps for Education Gmail with the format UCLALogon@g.ucla.edu. By default, emails sent to UCLALogon@ucla.edu are forwarded to your UCLA Gmail account. Since your official Anderson email also uses your UCLA Logon to sign in, your username will appear as UCLALogon@ucla.edu under your Outlook profile after signing in at outlook.anderson.ucla.edu.

Program offices and instructors will be sending emails to your official Anderson email address @anderson.ucla.edu, and it is highly recommended to Update Official Email Address in MyUCLA to your Anderson email. Doing so is also needed for services granting access only to Anderson affiliated users such as Slack, Qualtrics, etc. For a list of accounts used at Anderson, please refer to this article: Student Accounts & Passwords.

While your UCLA Gmail @g.ucla.edu is optional, it does provide the benefits of a Google Apps for UCLA account, such as unlimited Google Drive storage. You can check emails sent to this account at https://g.ucla.edu. If you wish to reduce the overhead of checking two email inboxes, you can set up forwarding of emails sent to your @g.ucla.edu address to another email, which we recommend your @anderson.ucla.edu address. To do so, please refer to the steps below using a desktop/non-mobile browser.

Add Forwarding Address to UCLA Gmail Account

Go to: https://g.ucla.edu
If directed to, log in using your UCLA Logon ID.
Confirm you are logged into the correct account. There should be a UCLA Logo in the top right-hand corner of the window. Hover your mouse pointer over the UCLA logo to verify you are logged into your UCLALogon@g.ucla.edu account.
1. If you keep getting redirected back to a personal Gmail account:
  1. In the upper right corner of your personal Gmail account, click on your email address (or the account icon, if you have Google+ activated). It will show all Google accounts currently authenticated in your browser.
  2. Click on your Google Workspace for UCLA / @g.ucla.edu account in the list. It should redirect you to your Google Workspace for UCLA account.
  3. If it redirects you back to your Gmail account, you have two options:
    1. Click on your email address / account icon in the upper right again, and click on 'Add Account' again. On the following Google login screen, enter <your UCLA Logon ID>@g.ucla.edu and leave the password blank. Then click [Sign In]. This will redirect you to the UCLA Logon ID authentication page. Log in with your UCLA Logon ID and password.
    2. [Alternatively] click on your email address / account icon in the upper right again, then click on [Sign Out]. Then authenticate into your Google Workspace for UCLA account again by going to https://g.ucla.edu.
  4. For more information, please see Google's support article regarding how to Switch between multiple Google accounts.
Once logged into your Google Workspace for UCLA account:
1. Click on the Gear Icon in the top right-hand corner of the window.
2. Click on the [See all settings] button.
In the Settings window:
1. Select "Forwarding and POP/IMAP".
2. Click on the [Add a forwarding address] button.
At the "Add a forwarding address" prompt, enter the email address you want your emails forwarded to and click on the [Next] button.
At the "Confirm forwarding address" window, click on the [Proceed] button.
Note: If are trying to forward to another @ucla.edu or @dept.ucla.edu email address you can skip to Step 11 as Google will not require you to confirm ownership of the email address.
At the "A confirmation link has been sent" notice, click on the [OK] button. A confirmation email will be sent to the email address you entered above in Step 7.
Check the inbox of your intended forwarding address for a "Google Apps for UCLA Forwarding Confirmation" email. Once received, open the email and click on the confirmation link found in the body of the email.
At the Gmail Confirmation window, click on the [Confirm] button.
You have successfully added the email address. Make sure that Disable forwarding is selected under Forwarding and POP/IMAP settings as it can interfere with the custom filter you are setting up in steps 12-18.
Go to http://mail.g.ucla.edu.
Again, click on the Gear Icon in the top right-hand corner of the window and click on the [See all settings] button.
In the Settings window:
1. Click on "Filters and Blocked Addresses".
2. Click on "Create a new filter".
At the pop-up window:
1. In the "Has the words" section, enter "deliveredto:ucla.edu" (no spaces, no quotes)
2. Click on "Create filter".
At the next window:
1. Place a check mark on "Forward it to:", "Delete it" and "Never send it to Spam" and make sure the correct forwarding address is selected for "Forward it to:".
2. Click on the [Create filter] button.
Click on the [OK] button at the "Confirm create filter?" window.
Confirm that the filter was successfully created and your forwarding setup is complete.

Verify Forwarding Has Been Set Up

Login to your Google Workspace account at: https://g.ucla.edu
Verify that your Gmail Filter page matches Step 18 above with your forwarding address in place of the uc.baby.bears@gmail.com example.
Send a test message to your UCLALogon@ucla.edu and UCLALogon@g.ucla.edu addresses.

Note: If your forwarding address is an @gmail.com address or another Google hosted email account, we recommend sending a test message from a different email address that is not part of the forwarding chain. Test messages from other Google email accounts may not show up as new messages in your forwarding address' Inbox per Google's documentation.