After starting to use the Office 365 e-mail service, all e-mails to Firstname.Lastname@helsinki.fi will be directed to the Office 365 server. If you want to read your e-mails on another system, you can direct your e-mails elsewhere according to these instructions.
For more information on redirecting e-mail, see the Students digital skills.
Note! Forwarding or redirecting official mail, i.e. e-mails related to work duties, to an address outside the university is always prohibited based on the university’s e-mail processing rules.
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- Log in to your e-mail at https://www.helsinki.fi/office365
- Open the cogwheel icon > View all Outlook settings.
- Open Email > Forwarding (1).
- Tick the box Enable forwarding (2).
- In the field (3), type the address where you wish your e-mail to be forwarded.
- If you wish to keep copies of the messages in OWA, tick the box Keep a copy of forwarded messages (4).
- Click on Save (5).
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