Forward Your Wharton Gmail to a Personal Mail Inbox (Students)
Last Modified on 08/27/2025 3:46 pm EDT
These directions guide you on setting up your Wharton Gmail (and Alumni Forwarding Address) to forward to a personal address.
Before You Start
You will need the following before you can complete this task:
- An active Wharton Gmail account or Alumni Forwarding Address
- An active personal Email account
Note: Forwarding your email comes with an increased risk of deferred (delayed) messages and message bounces. For more information, please see our Common Problems Forwarding to Gmail article.
Forwarding Your Email
Follow these steps to forward email, sent to either your Wharton Gmail or to your Alumni Forwarding Address, to a personal email account.
Note on Gmail to Gmail Forwarding: If you forward mail to a personal Gmail address, you will not have the ability to RSVP for event invites sent to your Wharton Gmail address. However, you will still be able to add the event to your calendar.
If you decide to forward your email, you will also be unable to use Wharton's Global Address List (GAL) in your personal account. To use this address list, you must log into your Wharton Gmail account.
- Navigate to the Forwarding app: https://apps.wharton.upenn.edu/iam/forwarding/ .
- Log in with your PennKey credentials if prompted.
- Click the Forward My Mail tab.
- Enter the address you want mail forwarded to in the box.
- Click Update.
Gmail users: If you forward your Wharton Gmail to a personal Gmail account, send any messages using a different account. Gmail does not deliver mail you send or CC to yourself from your forwarded Wharton Gmail account.
Un-Forwarding Your Email
Send-As Settings
Sending as your Wharton School Address (Short Address) or Alumni Forwarding Address from your personal Gmail account is not recommended due to limitations in functionality. However, if you would prefer this method, you can set it up by using the directions in one of the following articles:
Tips About Forwarding
Questions?
Contact: Wharton Computing Client Support Services
Email: support@wharton.upenn.edu