Efficient Email Forwarding: A Guide to Email Forwarders in cPanel

cPanel Email allows users to create multiple email accounts for various purposes. As the number of accounts increases, each account needs to be opened to view incoming emails. To address this, users can forward emails from one account to another, discard or send them to a program and forward all emails from one domain to another.

a) How to create an email forwarder in cPanel

1. Log into cPanel and navigate to the Email section to select Forwarders tool or search for the Forwarders tool in the search bar.

2. Then, navigate to the “Create Email Account Forwarder” section and click the “Add Forwarder” button.

3. Then, enter the desired address, but it doesn’t need to be created. If you don’t forward, the email won’t be stored in the original email’s mailbox.

4. Next, select the desired destination and input the desired email address. If you want to discard the message and provide a failure message to the sender, you can tick the Discard and Send an error to the sender checkbox and customize the message in the text box.

5. In the Advance Options section, select Forward to a system account in the Advanced Options section and enter the system account name. If you want to send the email to a program, choose “Pipe to a program” and enter the program’s pathname and file extension. Then, select “Discard” to discard the email without any action.

6. Finally, click the Add Forwarder button to save the changes.

b) How to add a domain forwarder in cPanel

1. Log into cPanel and navigate to the Email section to select Forwarders tool or search for the Forwarders tool in the search bar.

2. Then, click on the “Add Domain Forwarder” button under “Create Email Forwarder” in the Forwarders interface.

3. After that, select the desired domain name and enter the email address from which you will receive emails in the text box next to the domain name.

4. Finally, click the Add Domain Forwarder button to save the changes.

c) How to delete an email or domain forwarder in cPanel

1. Log into cPanel and navigate to the Email section to select Forwarders tool or search for the Forwarders tool in the search bar.

2. Then, click the Delete link for the forwarder you want to delete.

3. Finally, click the Remove Forwarder button to remove the email forwarder.

 Email account forwarder:

Domain forwarder: