Forwarding new email to a different address

Informations for employees

According to the Privacy Protection's Work Rules on the handling of e-mails and internet use, employees are not allowed to forward e-mails.

Instructions for students

It is very important to have an activated UI email address. However, not everyone wants to keep track of multiple email addresses and/or log into their UI mailbox each day. It is possible to forward all emails received by your UI email address to a different address, such as Gmail.

The easiest way to do this, is in the browser, and we recommend you set everything up there even if you generally use Outlook on your computer or phone. This is how you set up email forwarding:

1. Open your browser and go to outlook.hi.is.
2. Click on the gear ⚙️ in the top right corner:
3. Select "Email" and then "Forwarding". Tick the box next to "Enable forwarding" and type the email address you wish to forward the mail to. If you want to keep a copy in your UI mailbox, tick the box next to "Keep a copy of forwarded messages". Click "Save" at the bottom: