I have been trying to forward email from my Exchange email to my Gmail account, my primary email. After trying some things, the emails my Exchange account receives aren't being forwarded at all. I've tried with multiple forwarding addresses and nothing works. When I tell it to keep a copy of the forwarded message, they appear in my Exchange inbox. What can I do to fix this? I really need all this going through my Gmail.

Please try below steps :

Create a MailContact

Create a MailContact using the EMC:

1. Expand Recipient Configuration | Mail Contact

2. In the Action pane, click New Mail Contact

3. To create a new Contact object, leave the default (New Contact) selected | click Next
4. Type First name, Last name
5. Click Edit to add the external email address

6. Click New to complete creation of new MailContact

Forward the Email

Now that we have a MailContact created for the external recipients email address, we can forward mail for the Exchange recipient to the MailContact. To configure mail forwarding using the EMC:

1. Expand Recipient Configuration | Mailbox | select mailbox | properties | Mail Flow Settings tab | Delivery Options
2. Under Forwarding address, select Forward to
3. Click Browse to select the MailContact
4. Optional: If a copy of the message needs to be delivered to both the external recipient and the original recipients mailbox, select the Deliver message to both forwarding address and mailbox

Hi,

The method that Dinesh provided is very comprehensive.

And I found additional useful article:

Create Forwarding Mailboxes for Custom Recipients

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd547068.aspx

Hope it is useful

Thanks

Mavis

Its much easier.

Go to EMC

Create a contact

Give the contact an internal email address.

Give the contact an external email address.

Voila