Can’t setup email forwarding to an external email address

Situation: when attempting to forward emails to external email address on Office 365, you may not be able to do so with No results found.

For administrator

Resolution 1: Enable Forwarding on Anti-Spam Policy. Please refer to this post:

Resolution 2: Create an Anti-spam Policy for the forwarding to an external email address (This is more secure)

Resolution 3: Create a Contact for forwarding external email

For a user

Resolution 4: Create a rule to forward email using Outlook

Resolution 5: Create an Automatic Reply to forward the emails

File > Automatic Replies > Rules… >Add Rule… > Forward > Check the box and populate the “To;” field

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