message is forwarded to vs message was forwarded

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'Message is forwarded to' is used in the present tense to describe an action that is currently happening or will happen in the future. 'Message was forwarded' is used in the past tense to describe an action that has already taken place.

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message is forwarded to

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to describe an action that is currently happening or will happen in the future.

This phrase is used in the present tense to indicate that a message is currently being forwarded to a recipient or will be forwarded in the future.

Examples:

The message is forwarded to the IT department for further investigation.
The email is forwarded to the relevant team for review.
The document is forwarded to the legal department for approval.

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Communicating to the Centre any messages forwarded to the Community network via the Early Warning and Response System;
communicate to the Centre any messages forwarded to the Community network via the early warning and response system;
The message has been forwarded to someone else.
All the information provided by the ECURIE Alert messages (including the leak rate) was in the ECURIE message forwarded to the Member States authorities, including the French authorities.
messages forwarded to the Commission are sequentially numbered (with a unique identifier) in order to avoid duplication;
messages forwarded to the Commission are in accordance with the data exchange format set out in Annex VIII.
Member States shall ensure that all reports and messages forwarded by them are sequentially numbered.
Member States shall ensure that all reports and messages forwarded by them are numbered sequentially.
(b) Communicate to the Centre any messages forwarded to the Community network via the Early Warning and Response System; and
communicate to the Centre any messages forwarded to the Community network via the Early Warning and Response System; and
For the purposes of proving the existence of such an association, it is irrelevant whether this extends to the acceptance from partners of applications for the interception of messages which are then forwarded to them in the form of unevaluated raw material.
More likely somebody else sent that message and then forwarded it to Brian Tran.
The addressee to whom the message will be forwarded.
Any idea who forwarded the message?
Here you can create and manage templates to use when composing new messages, replies or forwarded messages. The message templates support substitution commands, either simply type them or select them from the Insert command menu.
The text that is inserted when forwarding a message, saying that the forwarded message follows
For instance, the Court's annual work programme is forwarded to SAIs.
In this context France transmits data to the Commission which is forwarded to those Regional Management Fisheries Organisations.
This one time, Hogan, she got me really worked up, so I emailed Cassidy, she wrote me back, and instead of hitting reply... I forwarded the message to Hogan by mistake.
Member States shall ensure that the first of these reports is forwarded to the Commission within 18 months after the date referred to in Article 17.

Alternatives:

The message will be forwarded to
The message is being forwarded to
The message gets forwarded to

message was forwarded

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to describe an action that has already taken place in the past.

This phrase is used in the past tense to indicate that a message has already been forwarded to a recipient.

Examples:

The message was forwarded to the wrong department.
The email was forwarded to the CEO for approval.
The document was forwarded to the client for review.

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Member States shall ensure that all reports and messages forwarded by them are sequentially numbered.
Member States shall ensure that all reports and messages forwarded by them are numbered sequentially.
Communicating to the Centre any messages forwarded to the Community network via the Early Warning and Response System;
communicate to the Centre any messages forwarded to the Community network via the early warning and response system;
All the information provided by the ECURIE Alert messages (including the leak rate) was in the ECURIE message forwarded to the Member States authorities, including the French authorities.
messages forwarded to the Commission are sequentially numbered (with a unique identifier) in order to avoid duplication;
messages forwarded to the Commission are in accordance with the data exchange format set out in Annex VIII.
More likely somebody else sent that message and then forwarded it to Brian Tran.
The message has been forwarded to someone else.
The addressee to whom the message will be forwarded.
Any idea who forwarded the message?
(b) Communicate to the Centre any messages forwarded to the Community network via the Early Warning and Response System; and
communicate to the Centre any messages forwarded to the Community network via the Early Warning and Response System; and
Here you can create and manage templates to use when composing new messages, replies or forwarded messages. The message templates support substitution commands, either simply type them or select them from the Insert command menu.
For the purposes of proving the existence of such an association, it is irrelevant whether this extends to the acceptance from partners of applications for the interception of messages which are then forwarded to them in the form of unevaluated raw material.
The text that is inserted when forwarding a message, saying that the forwarded message follows
This one time, Hogan, she got me really worked up, so I emailed Cassidy, she wrote me back, and instead of hitting reply... I forwarded the message to Hogan by mistake.
Looks like the release file was forwarded.
Yes, it was forwarded to me.
The complaint was forwarded to the Commission, which requested clarifications from the UK Government.

Alternatives:

The message had been forwarded
The message got forwarded
The message was sent on

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