How to Set Up Email Forwarding in cPanel

How to Set Up Email Forwarding in cPanel

Email forwarding helps you to forward all your emails from one email-id to another. It is very helpful if you have many email ids and you want all e-mails to come to one single mail id. There are two types of e-mail forwarders which can help you with this:

Account forwarders

It forwards incoming mails from one e-mail account to another e-mail account. Also, you can setup multiple forwarders and forward e-mails from one to multiple accounts.

Domain forwarders

This type of forwarder forwards all incoming e-mail from one domain to another domain. For example, you could forward all incoming e-mail for the website1.com domain to the website2.com domain.

Follow the below steps, to set up e-mail forwarding.

1. Log in to your cPanel account.


2. Scroll or search for “Forwarders ” and click.

3. In next page, you will get two options.

  • If you want to forward e-mail from one email account to another, then click on the Add Forwarder icon.
  • If you want to forward the all emails from one website to another website email, click the Add Domain Forwarder icon.

Single account forwarder (Account forwarders)

To forward e-mail from one mail id to another:

  • Type in the e-mail id name before @ sign.
  • Choose the domain of the e-mail address.
  • Fill in the email address you would like the e-mail to be forwarded to.  
  • Click Add Forwarder

To forward all email of a domain to another domain(Domain forwarders)

To forward all the e-mail of domain to another domain e-mail id.

  • Choose the domain.
  • Type email address you would like the all email to be forwarded to.  
  • Click “Add Domain Forwarder”.

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