What are Email Forwarders?
If you have multiple email addresses for your business, it’s a good practice to forward all email messages to one account. So if you have sales@example.com, service@example.com, and support@example.com email addresses, all of them can be sent to one account such as customers@example.com. Setting up email forwarders can be done through cPanel or through your Webmail login page.
cPanel allows you to create two types of email forwarders: Email Account Forwarders and Domain Forwarders.
Email Account Forwarders are assigned as one forwarder per email account. You can create multiple forwarders, but you have to do them individually.
Global Email Filters are based on a domain name. When you create a Domain Forwarder, it sends all email to the domain that you specify. Be cautious with this option as it overrides the existing domain setting for email accounts, however. For example, if you create a domain forwarder for domain1.com to forward to domain2.com, any email for domain1.com will automatically go to domain2.com. Corresponding email accounts must exist in order for email to be delivered – they’re not automatically created for you.
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Creating a Forwarder in cPanel
Step 1: Log into cPanel
Step 2: Click the Forwarders button in the Email section.
Step 3: On the forwarders page, click Add Forwarder.
Step 4: On the Add a New Forwarder page, type the email address username in the Address to Forward space.
Step 5: Select the domain from the drop-down box.
Step 6: For the Destination option, type the full email address that you want to forward emails to in the text box.
Step 7: Click Add Forwarder.
Congratulations, the email forwarder was created in the cPanel mail forwarders section. Now when going to the Email Account Forwarders page, the forwarder will show up on the list.
