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How to verify a flow forwarding email

During verification, these different systems will attempt to send an email with a URL (that needs to be clicked) into the flow in Parabola . You will likely receive a failure email in the flow that means this “verification email” has been sent in and needs approval.
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Go into the flow you are trying to auto-forward your emails into
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Change “Pull data from email attachment” to SOLELY “Pull data from email content” and make sure that you have selected “body_text” as one of the fields you bring in.
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Click refresh and you should see the body_text that contains the verification URL. Make sure to click to confirm that URL, then you can change the “Pull data…” selection back to what was previously selected.
If you’re having trouble receiving this email or finding the verification URL/link in Parabola, you can try rejecting the email, which will send it back to the email of the flow’s owner.
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Open the Extract from email step settings
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Click “View all flow email settings ⚙”
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Check the box labeled “Reject emails that do not contain valid attachments”
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Attempt to re-send the email forwarding verification link
You should receive an email from Parabola that the flow could not process the email; this message will also contain the rejected email which contains the verification link. Use this URL/link and proceed with the rest of the set up process.

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Google

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Turn on automatic forwarding

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On your computer, open Gmail.
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Sign in to the account where you want to forward messages from.
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In the top right, click “Settings” > “See all settings”.
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Click the “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” or “Forwarding” tab.
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In the “Forwarding” section, click “Add a forwarding address”.
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Enter the email address you want to forward messages to.
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Click “Next” / “Proceed” / “OK”.
  • A verification message is sent to the forwarding email address.
  • See “How to verify a flow forwarding email” above if you cannot find this verification email
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In the other email account, click the verification link in the message.
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Return to the “Settings” page in Gmail.
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Refresh your browser.
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Click the “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” or “Forwarding” tab.
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In the “Forwarding” section, select “Forward a copy of incoming mail to”.
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Choose what you want to happen with the Gmail copy of your emails.
  • It’s recommended you select “Keep Gmail’s copy in the Inbox”.
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At the bottom of the page, click “Save Changes”.
You can choose to forward all of your new messages to another email address, or only forward certain types of messages.
  • After you add a forwarding email address, we send a verification link to the address.
  • After you verify, you can forward messages to that email address.
  • We forward all new messages to the account, except for spam.
  • To forward messages that match a specific criteria, you can create a filter.
  • To choose what happens to the copy of an incoming email, you can:
    • Save a copy in your inbox.
    • Automatically archive the copy.

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Turn off automatic forwarding

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On your computer, open Gmail.
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Sign in to the account that’s forwarding your emails.
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In the top right, click Settings See all settings.
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Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP or Forwarding tab.
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In the “Forwarding” section, click Disable forwarding.
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At the bottom, click Save Changes.

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Forward messages that match your filters

Important: By default, automatic forwarding sends all your Gmail messages to the new address. To forward specific messages, turn off automatic forwarding and set up a filter to choose which messages get sent.
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On your computer, open Gmail.
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At the top, in the search box, click “Show search options”.
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Enter your search criteria.
  • To check that your search works, click “Search”.
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At the bottom of the search window, click “Create filter”.
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From the list of filter options, click “Forward it”.
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Select the forwarding email address.
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Click “Create filter”.
Tip:To forward messages to multiple accounts, create a filter for every forwarding email address.

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Outlook

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Forward all emails

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At the top of the new Outlook window, select “Settings”.
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Select “Mail” > “Forwarding”.
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Toggle the “Enable forwarding” switch, enter the forwarding email address, and select “Save”.

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Forward based on a condition

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On the ribbon, select the “Home” tab, then in the “Move” section, select “Rules” > “Manage Rules & Alerts”.
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If you have more than one email account set up, on the “Email Rules” tab, ensure that “Apply changes to this folder” is set to the email address you want to start from. Otherwise, go to the next step.
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Select “New Rule”.
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Under “Start from a blank rule”, select “Apply rule on messages I receive”. Select “Next”.
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Under “Which condition(s) do you want to check?”
  1. Do not select any conditions or edit the rule description in steps 1 or 2.
  2. Select “Next”, and then select “Yes” to “This rule will be applied to every message you receive”.
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Under “What do you want to do with the message?”
  1. Under “Step 1: Select action(s)”, select redirect it to people or public group and stop processing more rules.
  2. Under “Step 2: Edit the rule description”, select the people or public group link.
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In the “Rule Address” dialog, under “Address Book”, select the contact list that contains the address you want to forward to.
  1. In the “To” box at the bottom, enter the email address that you want to forward all your mail to. Select “OK”. You should see the email address you want all of your email forwarded to inserted into the rule under Step 2.
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Select “Finish”, select “Apply”, and then select “OK”.
When you first check that messages are being forwarded successfully, check the Junk or Spam folder to see if the forwarded messages have been put there.
Last modified on May 7, 2026