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POP3 was disabled for my email account, so here's how I got my email forwarded to gmail:

Navigate to the Outlook Web App (mine was mobile.johnshopkins.edu).

Click the little "settings" gear in the upper right corner and click "Options"

Click the "organize email" tab in the left sidebar.

Now you will be in the "inbox rules" tab - stay there! Click the big PLUS (+) button to make a new inbox rule. My rule was:

  • apply to all messages
  • redirect the message to mygmailaccount@gmail.com
  • delete the message

This forwards to my gmail account, trashes the message on the original server (so I don't run into space constraints), and TO BOOT the message appears in my gmail account from the original sender (not from me!) and sent to my hopkins.edu email. PERFECT.

I also set up "send mail as" in gmail, which is located in the "accounts and import" tab when you click the settings gear in the upper right. I added all my JHU email addresses (dear god why so many) and set them up to send through SMTP, secure connection on port 587. This still seems to work just fine.

Now I am not angry about having to use the Outlook Web App for the next year and this makes me feel so so good.

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