Exchange Online and mail forwarding

Question

Hi all. I have a little question about mail forwarding. Scenario: i have a exchange online mailbox - for example user@contoso1.com. Now I want register a new domain - for example contoso2.com - and then configure a simple mail forwading from user@contoso2.com to user@contoso1.com. So when an email is sent to user@contoso2.com it must be forwarded/saved in the user@contoso1.com mailbox. Two questions:

1. do I need an Exchange Online license even if user@contoso2.com is just an email address and not a real mailbox?
2. if the answer to the first question is no, how do I configure forwarding? Thank's a lot :D

Answer 1

Hello. Not sure why would you require forwards. If you register the domain in Microsoft 365, you can just add the second address to the licensed user

Answer 2

Create user@contoso.com as a shared mailbox ( No license required) Set forwarding on the shared mailbox to go to user@contoso1.com

Answer 3

Hi @ Giuseppe Lucente ,
You can follow these steps to set up forwarding:

1.In user@contoso2.com's mailbox, click the settings icon in the upper-right corner.

2.Click View all Outlook settings and go to Mail Rules.

3.Then add a rule to forward all messages to another mailbox.

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Answer 4

Thanks for the replies Andy and Rafael. I thought it was much more complicated but it is much simpler. I tested both solutions and they work perfectly :D