When manually forwarding an email in Gmail, there is a lot more that can be done other than just adding a recipient and your response.
Here are five overlooked email forwarding features in Gmail that you should know about.
1 – How To Reply To Original Sender Of Forwarded Message Gmail
In Gmail, you can reply to the original sender of a forwarded email by replacing the email address in the email recipients field with the original sender’s email address when replying to the forwarded email.
This can be achieved by using the following steps:
1 – Locate the forwarded email you would like to reply to and open it.
2 – Click the reply button icon at the top right of the email.
2b – Alternatively, you can click on the reply button at the bottom of the email.
3 – At the top of the reply window, click on the email address of the forwarder and delete it by clicking on the “x” to the right of the email address.
4 – Copy the original sender’s email address from the email header of the forwarded email.
5 – In the empty email recipients field enter or paste in the original sender’s email address.
6 – Finally, in the reply window type out your message response then click on the Send button.
2 – How To Change Subject Line In Gmail When Forwarding
In Gmail, you can change the subject line of any email that you would like to forward by using the built-in edit subject feature.
1 – Open the email that you would like to forward.
2 – Click on the three vertical dots to the right of the email then select the forward option in the menu.
3 – Within the email forwarding window, click on the type of response button to the left of the email recipients field.
4 – In the dropdown menu select the edit subject option. This will pop out the reply window and reveal the subject field.
5 – Erase the current subject of the email and change it to the one you desire.
6 – Enter the email address of the person you’re forwarding the email to and then click send.
3 – How To Edit Forwarded Email In Gmail
To edit a forwarded email in Gmail you will first need to click on the forward button and then in the reply window scroll past the forwarding header to view and make changes to the original or previous conversations located in that email thread.
1 – Open the email you want to forward.
2 – Scroll down to the end of the email and click on the forward button.
2 – Within the email forwarding window, scroll down past the forwarding header to view the original email and past conversations.
3 – Make any necessary changes to the content of the original email.
4 – Enter the email address of the persons that you’re forwarding the edited email and click send.
4 – How To Remove Attachments In Gmail When Forwarding
When forwarding an email in Gmail you can remove the attachments by either using the reply option instead of the forward option or by deleting the attachments before forwarding the email.
1 – Open the email that you would like to forward.
2 – Click on the forward button at the end of the email or in the drop-down menu at the top right of the email.
3 – Within the email forwarding window, scroll down to the end of the original message and locate the attachments, then click on the “x” to the right of the attachment names to remove them.
4 – Enter the email address of the person that you’re forwarding the email to and click send to forward the email without the attachments.
5 – How To Delete Forwarded Email In Gmail
In Gmail, you can delete individual conversations of a forwarded email by using the built-in delete message feature.
1 – Open the forwarded email.
2 – Within the conversation thread of this email locate the specific correspondence that you would like to delete.
3 – Once located click on the email thread then click on the three vertical dots to the upper right of that specific email message.
4 – In the dropdown menu select the “delete this message” option to remove that specific email message.
