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| title: Set email forwarding for a Mailbox email account | ||||||
| description: This page explains how to set email forwarding for a Mailbox email account on the Scaleway console. | ||||||
| tags: mailbox forwarding | ||||||
| dates: | ||||||
| validation: 2026-10-30 | ||||||
| posted: 2026-10-30 | ||||||
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| import Requirements from '@macros/iam/requirements.mdx' | ||||||
| import BetaNoteMailbox from '@macros/mailbox/beta-note.mdx' | ||||||
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| <BetaNoteMailbox /> | ||||||
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| Email forwarding lets you automatically forward emails received in your Mailbox account to another email address, called a destination. | ||||||
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| This feature is useful to: | ||||||
| - **Centralize your emails**: receive emails from several accounts in a single inbox. | ||||||
| - **Use a different email client**: read your emails in the client of your choice. | ||||||
| - **Back up your emails**: keep a copy of each email in another account. | ||||||
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| <Message type="note"> | ||||||
| In the current beta version of Mailbox, an email account is limited to 5 destinations. | ||||||
| </Message> | ||||||
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| <Requirements /> | ||||||
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| - A Scaleway account logged into the [console](https://console.scaleway.com) | ||||||
| - [Owner](/iam/concepts/glossary/#owner) status or [IAM permissions](/iam/concepts/glossary/#permission) allowing you to perform actions in the intended Organization | ||||||
| - [Configured your Mailbox domain](/mailbox/how-to/configure-mailbox/) with email accounts | ||||||
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| ## Add a destination to a Mailbox email account | ||||||
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| 1. Click **Mailbox** in the **Domains & Web Hosting** section of the [console](https://console.scaleway.com/) side menu. The list of your domains appears. | ||||||
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| 2. Click the domain you wish to configure. The list of Mailboxes created for this domain appears. | ||||||
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There was a problem hiding this comment. Choose a reason for hiding this commentThe reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more. Je ne sais pas si la majuscule est pertinente ici, on a le même cas qu'avec Instance non ? mailbox en tant que tel vs. Mailbox le produit ? Avis ?
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| 3. Click a Mailbox email account to configure. The Mailbox account information appears. | ||||||
| 4. Navigate to the **Forwarding** tab. | ||||||
| 5. Click **Add destination**. | ||||||
| 6. Enter the email address to use as a forwarding destination. | ||||||
| 7. Click **Add destination**. | ||||||
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| ## Enable or disable email forwarding | ||||||
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| You can enable and disable email forwarding for all destinations set for a Mailbox email account. | ||||||
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| <Message type="note"> | ||||||
| If you want to disable email forwarding for a specific destination, you must delete the destination. | ||||||
| </Message> | ||||||
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| 1. Click **Mailbox** in the **Domains & Web Hosting** section of the [console](https://console.scaleway.com/) side menu. The list of your domains appears. | ||||||
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| 2. Click the domain you want to configure. The list of Mailboxes created for this domain appears. | ||||||
| 3. Click a Mailbox email account to configure. The Mailbox account information appears. | ||||||
| 4. Navigate to the **Forwarding** tab. | ||||||
| 5. In the **Email forwarding** section, click the **Forwarding** toggle to enable or disable email forwarding for all destinations. | ||||||
| 6. (Optional) Click the **Keep a copy in this mailbox** toggle to keep a copy of forwarded emails in the Mailbox email account. This option is disabled by default when email forwarding is enabled. | ||||||
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| ## Edit a destination | ||||||
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| 1. Click **Mailbox** in the **Domains & Web Hosting** section of the [console](https://console.scaleway.com/) side menu. The list of your domains appears. | ||||||
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| 2. Click a Mailbox domain to configure. The list of Mailboxes created for this domain appears. | ||||||
| 3. Click a Mailbox email account to configure. The Mailbox account information appears. | ||||||
| 4. Navigate to the **Forwarding** tab. | ||||||
| 5. Click <Icon name="more" /> next to the destination you want to edit and select **Edit destination** from the dropdown. A dialog box appears. | ||||||
| 6. Enter the new email address to use as a forwarding destination. | ||||||
| 7. Click **Confirm**. | ||||||
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| ## Delete a destination | ||||||
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| 1. Click **Mailbox** in the **Domains & Web Hosting** section of the [console](https://console.scaleway.com/) side menu. The list of your domains appears. | ||||||
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| 2. Click a Mailbox domain to configure. The list of Mailboxes created for this domain appears. | ||||||
| 3. Click a Mailbox email account to configure. The Mailbox account information appears. | ||||||
| 4. Navigate to the **Forwarding** tab. | ||||||
| 5. Click <Icon name="more" /> next to the destination you want to delete and select **Remove destination** from the dropdown. A dialog box appears. | ||||||
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| 6. Click **Confirm**. | ||||||
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Frontloading and size issues for SEO. Here is a suggestion, I'll let you adapt as you see fit.
description: Configure email forwarding for a Mailbox email account on Scaleway to redirect incoming messages to external destinations while preserving copies in your inbox.