How to setup Email Forwarding in cPanel?

Say you had separate email accounts for sales, service, and  support; all to handle each of its own emails relating to customers. Having to log into each account every time you need to check something is somewhat tedious – bet the number of times you would have wished for a single account to handle all this; is countless!  Luckily cPanel’s mail forwarder is there to put you out of your misery!

To handle emails of multiple accounts from a single email account, mail forwarder is the ideal solution. This tool allows you to send a copy of an email from one email address to another automatically making it easy for you to check emails of all types from just one account.

This tutorial covers cPanel’s email forwarding in detail with images of each step. Also you will find a video tutorial about this topic on Getting familiar with cPanel – How to add an Email Forwarder in cPanel. Follow along and you will have your first email forwarder setup in no time!

Setting up an email forwarder detailed tutorial

  1. As usual, log into cpanel and click on the Forwarder icon under the Mail section.cpanel-forwarder-feature
  2. Click Add Forwarder button.add-forwarder
  3. Type in the email address you want to forward.add-forwarder-email
  4. Next enter the address you want the messages forwarded to.add-forwarding-to-email-address
  5. Click on Add Forwarder and you are done! The email forwarder has been created and it will start working immediately.new-forwarder-add-forwarder
  6. Click on Go Back to return to this page if you have more forwarders to setup or if you want to delete any existing.forwarder-completion
  7. Another cool thing about this tool is that you can create domain specific mail forwarders. When you setup a domain forwarder, all email sent to it will be forwarded to the domain you specified.set-domain-forwarders

How to add an Email Forwarder in cPanel?

This wraps up creating email forwarders for email accounts in cPanel. Remember to double check the spellings of the entered email addresses when creating forwarders. More Mail tools.