Forward your Blackboard Vista email

Boston University’s Blackboard Vista e-mail system is for communicating within the Blackboard Vista system only. All e-mail correspondence is removed from a class at the end of each semester. In order to save any e-mails, you’ll need to forward them to an outside e-mail account.

Please note: To correspond with another Vista user you need to be logged into Vista and using the Vista e-mail system. Vista users can’t respond to anyone in Vista by replying from an outside e-mail account.

These steps below work for both Windows and Mac OS X users.

  1. Log into Vista. You will start off at your “My Vista” page.
  2. In the upper right-hand corner of your “My Vista” page, click the “My Settings” link.
    mysettings-link
  3. On your “My Profile” tab, click the “Edit Profile” button.
    mysettings-myprofile
  4. In the “E-mail:” text box enter in the outside e-mail address to which you would like your Blackboard Vista e-mail forwarded. Click the “Save” button.
    v42-editprofile
  5. Next, click the “My Tool Options” tab under “My Settings.”
    mytoolsoptions
  6. Scroll down to the “Mail” section and check the check box to the left of “Forward all mail messages to the e-mail address in my profile”
    v42-mailforward
  7. Click the “Save” button at the bottom of the page. You will see a “success” message just under your “My Tool Options” tab at the top of the page.
    mytoolsoptions-saved
  8. Click the “My Vista” tab at the top of this page to return to your “My Vista” page.

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