O365 - Auto forward to external user

[MatthewL]

What is the best way to set this up, this is for me at home.

 

I want to create an alias of [email protected] which then forwards to an external address (contact) such as [email protected].

 

Don't want to create a mailbox or incur the license fee for a mailbox just want them to be able to have an email address on my domain that sends to them.

[Edu-IT]

Would Outlook Rules not do this?

[psydii]

No, by default this is blocked by default in tenants. Auto forward rules are one of the first things abused by hackers when they pop an account.

[nadeem]

Distribution List with just one member (the contact)?

[MatthewL]

@nadeem that was possibly my thinking. Just need to look at the SPF side of things with that.

 

If I am doing that I would probably just as well doing a mail flow rule possibly. Take it no one has done it here then?

[Cache]

Not specifically for that purpose but I have created a mail flow rule so that if mail is sent to a specific address then it adds another address to the To line - does do what you are asking, it would just then be dealing with the bounce if it doesn't exist. Could you create a shared mailbox?