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Can students forward their e-mail out of Windows Live Hotmail into another account?

April 26, 2017account e-mail forward Hotmail live mail students Windows

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Can students forward their e-mail out of Windows Live Hotmail into another account?

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Yes, this feature is live in Hotmail today. However, schools have the ability to opt out of this functionality for their managed accounts. Some schools see the lack of forwarding as a benefit, as this limitation helps to prevent faculty/staff e-mails from getting caught in a myriad of spam filters. With no forwarding, only Windows Live Hotmail anti-spam filters apply, we safe-list the IPs of the mail servers associated with faculty and staff e-mail. As a result, emails from those servers will get through. Note that forwarded email is not stored in sent items, and so the student will have no record of it in their Hotmail inbox.