This cPanel interface allows you to configure an email address to forward copies of incoming emails to another address.
This is useful if you want to use one email address to check emails addressed to multiple accounts.
You can also discard email or send (pipe) email to a program.
To manage forwarders for a specific domain on your account, select the desired domain from the Managing menu.
Please note that to manage forwarders for email accounts that use the BoxTrapper feature (cPanel >> Home >> Email >> BoxTrapper), use the BoxTrapper _Forward List_ feature.
cPanel Email Account Forwarders
The Email Account Forwarders table lists all of the email addresses that use a forwarder to redirect email to another address or service.
To quickly find a specific email address, enter a keyword in the Search text box and click Go.
To view the route that a forwarded email takes, click Trace in the Functions next to that email address.
To delete a forwarder, click Delete next to that email address, and then click Delete Forwarder to confirm.
If a forwarder shares an address with an email account, both will receive mail.
To stop receiving an email at the account, delete it.
Then, only the forwarder will receive the email.
How To Add An Email Forwarder
To add a mail forwarder, perform the following steps:
Click Add Forwarder.
In the Address to Forward text box, enter the address for which you wish to forward incoming email.
Select the desired domain from the menu.
Select one of the following options:
Forward to email address — Select this option to forward incoming email to another address.
Enter the address to which you wish to forward the email in the text box.
Discard and send an error to the sender (at SMTP time) — Select this option to discard incoming email and automatically send a failure notice to the sender.
Enter the desired failure message in the Failure Message text box.
Click Advanced Options to view the following additional options:
- Forward to a system account — Select this option to forward incoming email to a system user. Enter the username of any user on the server in the text box. Note that system accounts do not have a public-facing email address.
- Pipe to a program — To automatically forward incoming email to a program, enter a path to the program, relative to the account’s home directory (for example, utilities/support.pl) in the text box.
- Discard (Not Recommended) — Select this option to discard incoming email without a failure notice.
We do not recommend this option, because the sender will not know that the delivery failed.
Click Add Forwarder.
