Email Auto-forwarding

Learn how to set up auto-forwarding for your personal email to receive newsletters in Drippp

You might not want to use your @drippp.email address to subscribe to newsletters directly.

This could be for numerous reasons:

You already have a lot of subscriptions using your personal email address.
You want to keep using your personal email for your Substack (or similar) account.
You simply do not want to share your @drippp.email address to avoid spam.

Whatever the reason is, you can set up auto-forwarding for your personal email to receive newsletters in Drippp.

How to set up email auto-forwarding

The process is not complex, but it does vary depending on the email provider you are using.

At a high level, you will need to do 2 things:

Add your @drippp.email address as a verified forwarding address for your personal email address.
Set up filter rules to determine which emails should be forwarded to your @drippp.email address.

Let's go over the process for some of the most popular email providers.

Gmail

Add verified forwarding address

In your browser, open Gmail.
Sign in to the account where you want to forward messages from.
In the top right, click Settings > See all settings.
Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP or Forwarding tab.
In the "Forwarding" section, click Add a forwarding address.
Enter the @drippp.email address you want to forward messages to.
Click Next and then Proceed and then OK.
- A verification message is sent to the @drippp.email address.
- Drippp will detect these emails and forward them to you.
Note
If you do not receive the verification email within a few minutes, please check your Drippp inbox.
Click the verification link in the email.
Return to the "Settings" page in Gmail.
Refresh your browser.
Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP or Forwarding tab.
In the "Forwarding" section, make sure the Disable forwarding option is selected.
Note
This will prevent Gmail from forwarding all your emails to your @drippp.email address.
At the bottom of the page, click Save Changes.

Next, you'll need to set up filter rules to determine which emails should be forwarded to your @drippp.email address.

Set up filter rules

Note

You don't want to forward all emails to your @drippp.email address. Only your newsletter emails.

There are multiple ways to set up filter rules.

Using Gmail's filters in settings

From within Gmail, click on the Settings gear icon in the top right, then select See all settings.
Click the Filters and Blocked Addresses tab.
Click Create a new filter.
Fill in your filter criteria.
- Eg. In the "From" field, enter substack.com to forward all emails from Substack.
- You can make this as specific or as generic as you want.
- Gmail allows advanced search criteria.
(Optional) If you want to make sure the filter matches the correct emails, you can first click Search to see if any emails are returned.
Click Create filter.

Next, you'll be asked to what to do with the emails that match the filter.

Select Forward it to and enter your @drippp.email address.
(Recommended but optional) Select the Skip the Inbox (Archive it) checkbox.
- This will ensure that you don't receive duplicate emails in your inbox, but will still allow you to find them in your archive.
Click Create filter.

You are all set! ☕️

iCloud

You can follow this official guide to set it up.

Outlook

You can follow this official guide to set it up.

Fastmail

You can follow this official guide to set it up.

Protonmail

You can follow this official guide to set it up.

Recommendations

Try to set up generic filters to match as many newsletter emails as possible, so you don't have to set up too many filters.
- Eg. for Substack, you can add substack.com as the "From" criteria to match any Substack newsletter. The same can be applied to other platforms, like beehiiv; you can add beehiiv.com.
- Drippp will identify emails that require your immediate attention and forward them to your inbox.

Troubleshooting

If you're using Outlook, you might need additional steps to get around the default outbound spam filters. Take a look at their external email forwarding guide for more information.

If you have any questions, please contact me and I will be happy to help you.

How to set up email auto-forwarding

The process is not complex, but it does vary depending on the email provider you are using.

At a high level, you will need to do 2 things:

Add your @drippp.email address as a verified forwarding address for your personal email address.

Set up filter rules to determine which emails should be forwarded to your @drippp.email address.

Let's go over the process for some of the most popular email providers.

Gmail

Add verified forwarding address

In your browser, open Gmail.

In the top right, click Settings > See all settings.

Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP or Forwarding tab.

In the "Forwarding" section, click Add a forwarding address.

Enter the @drippp.email address you want to forward messages to.

Click Next and then Proceed and then OK.

A verification message is sent to the @drippp.email address.
Drippp will detect these emails and forward them to you.

Note

If you do not receive the verification email within a few minutes, please check your Drippp inbox.

Click the verification link in the email.

Return to the "Settings" page in Gmail.

Refresh your browser.

Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP or Forwarding tab.

In the "Forwarding" section, make sure the Disable forwarding option is selected.

Note

This will prevent Gmail from forwarding all your emails to your @drippp.email address.

At the bottom of the page, click Save Changes.

Next, you'll need to set up filter rules to determine which emails should be forwarded to your @drippp.email address.

Set up filter rules

Note

You don't want to forward all emails to your @drippp.email address. Only your newsletter emails.

There are multiple ways to set up filter rules.

Using Gmail's filters in settings

From within Gmail, click on the Settings gear icon in the top right, then select See all settings.

Click the Filters and Blocked Addresses tab.

Click Create a new filter.

Fill in your filter criteria.

Eg. In the "From" field, enter substack.com to forward all emails from Substack.
You can make this as specific or as generic as you want.
Gmail allows advanced search criteria.

(Optional) If you want to make sure the filter matches the correct emails, you can first click Search to see if any emails are returned.

Click Create filter.

Next, you'll be asked to what to do with the emails that match the filter.

Select Forward it to and enter your @drippp.email address.

(Recommended but optional) Select the Skip the Inbox (Archive it) checkbox.

This will ensure that you don't receive duplicate emails in your inbox, but will still allow you to find them in your archive.

Click Create filter.

You are all set! ☕️

Recommendations

Try to set up generic filters to match as many newsletter emails as possible, so you don't have to set up too many filters.

Eg. for Substack, you can add substack.com as the "From" criteria to match any Substack newsletter. The same can be applied to other platforms, like beehiiv; you can add beehiiv.com.
Drippp will identify emails that require your immediate attention and forward them to your inbox.