Setup Gmail to receive mail from TU Webmail

<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: HR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="color: #000000;">Many of us today have more than one email account and sometimes it can be very frustrating having to check all of them. It takes time and&nbsp;needs a good memory to remember all the logins and passwords. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: HR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="color: #000000;">As a student of TU Wien, everyone gets his own email adress whitch makes this problem worse. There is a soution for all Gmail users. It is possible to set a Gmail account to receive all the mails from TU Webmail so the user don't need to login through TU webmail aplication to check <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>his mail. User can also write his mail while connected as Gmail user and send it as TU Webmail user. </span></span></p>

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Forwarding TU email to Gmail (or any other email account)

For students TU-Wien (will be abbreviated as TU from now), checking TU-email is also one of the main activity as a student. Many of the information regarding the university in general, and lectures are broadcast using this email.
For students that also have another email account (in Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo) then it will be so complicated to check (always) many email account.

One could forward the email from TU-email to his/her favorite email account by visit this web-interface: https://mail.student.tuwien.ac.at/filter/
1. Login using TU credentials.
2. Choose Forward Mail, or
3. Choose New Rule, and define which kind of email that you want to be filtered, and then specify the action (for example: forward to ...)

setup Gmail to receive mails form Tu-wien webmail

  1. From the  Gmail account Setting select Account and Import .
  2. Define what account do you want to import from(Tu-webmail). 
  3. Enter password for the account you want to import from (Tu-webmail).
  4. Define the POP username(registration number).
  5. Define the POP server (mail.student.tuwien.ac.at).
  6. Select the import options for your account then Start import.

Solution for setting up Gmail to receive mail from TU Webmail

This can be done in following steps:

  1. Login to Gmail account.
  2. Click Settings in the top right corner of the page.
  3. In the section Accounts and Import click on Import mail and contacts.
  4. After that new window appears.
  • Define what account do you want to import from and click Continue
  • Enter password for the account you entered in the step before and click Continue.
  • Enter password again and define POP username: eMatrikelnummer e.g. e0926978

                                                            POP server: mail.student.tuwien.ac.at     Clilck Continue.

  • Select the import options for your account: Import mail, Leave a copy of retrieved messages on the server...

      Click Start import.

  • Now the messages are being imported. Click OK.