Auto Forwarding Emails

Created by Chris McKinley, Modified on Tue, 29 Oct at 8:42 AM by Chris McKinley

I used to be able to Auto-Forward emails, why can't I do that now?


As part of aligning with security and data protection best practices, the ability to auto-forward email to another account has been disabled.




This is a Microsoft default

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/community/basic-security-set-up-for-microsoft-365#block-client-forwarding-rules

Risk: Using client-side forwarding rules to exfiltrate data to external recipients is becoming an increasingly used vector for attackers. 




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