See this article from Google for a more thorough explanation: Best ways to forward mail to Gmail.Īnd if you’re forwarding a catch-all email address to your Gmail account, you may really be setting yourself up for trouble. This can be a challenge when forwarding ALL email from another domain to your Gmail account, since you’ll have to add each email address to your Gmail account as a potential sender.
This is an indicator to Gmail that the incoming mail from that address is indeed legitimate mail, and not a spammer trying to obscure their email address. When forwarding email from your GoDaddy account (or any other email provider), you must make sure to add your GoDaddy email address as a sender (see Sending Email, steps 7-10 below). You may end up having a lot of your legitimate forwarded email marked as spam when it arrives in your Gmail account. There may be a problem when setting up forwarding from your GoDaddy account to your Gmail account as per the ‘Bonus’ instructions at the end of this article. Here is a comprehensive guide on linking your GoDaddy email account with your Gmail account, so that you can send and receive email from your GoDaddy account via your Gmail account.
There are a few different guides on linking your GoDaddy account with Gmail already around, but I always found them lacking to one degree or another.