{"id":3849,"date":"2024-06-27T06:12:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T06:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.cloudhostgeek.com\/?p=3849"},"modified":"2025-11-05T10:48:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T10:48:16","slug":"set-up-cpanel-email-forwarder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigcloudy.com\/knowledge-base\/set-up-cpanel-email-forwarder\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting up email forwarders quickly using cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-fa68670b54e37c41676affc6e28d013e\">cPanel email forwarder is a helpful feature that automatically forwards incoming emails from one email address to another. When someone sends an email to the forwarder email address, it gets forwarded to the specified destination email address without being stored in the original mailbox.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-cb085d8bb7a72d692c97c7ec511cc94f\">In cPanel, setting up email forwarder is easy.\u00a0Here are the steps to set up an email forwarder:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:12px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"658\" height=\"542\" src=\"https:\/\/kb.cloudhostgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/cpanel-login.png\" alt=\"cPanel Login Page | BigCloudy KB\" class=\"wp-image-3833\" style=\"width:517px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bigcloudy.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/cpanel-login.png 658w, https:\/\/www.bigcloudy.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/cpanel-login-300x247.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 658px) 100vw, 658px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:12px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0542aac0ecfb3934dfdfd22b5c6bf248\">1. Log in to your <strong><a style=\"color:#7a00df;\" href=\"https:\/\/manage2.cpanel.net\/\">cPanel account<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-05e858e625be0e777666571b011cb595\">2. In the &#8220;<strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#7a00df\" class=\"has-inline-color\">EMAIL<\/mark><\/strong>&#8221; section, click on &#8220;<strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#7a00df\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Forwarders<\/mark><\/strong>&#8220;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:12px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"493\" height=\"153\" src=\"https:\/\/kb.cloudhostgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-32.png\" alt=\"cPane Email Forwarder | BigCloudy KB\" class=\"wp-image-3850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bigcloudy.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-32.png 493w, https:\/\/www.bigcloudy.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-32-300x93.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:12px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7c3a12c961b31a2f7bf817ce28fa539f\">3. To create a new email forwarding rule, click the &#8220;<strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#7a00df\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Add Forwarder<\/mark><\/strong>&#8221; button on the Forwarders page.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4a790a75b1d5181c9863cd5ee0b68090\">4. Fill in the following details for the forwarder:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-block-list wp-elements-75ed052cdd02feef7937ec991f106272\">\n<li>Enter the &#8220;<strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#7a00df\" class=\"has-inline-color\">email address<\/mark><\/strong>&#8221; for which you want to set up the forwarder (e.g.,\u00a0joe@example.com).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-block-list wp-elements-b527f8edaa36a86ccd5e724b4953c418\">\n<li>Enter the &#8220;<mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#7a00df\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>email address<\/strong><\/mark>&#8221; where you want incoming emails to be forwarded\u00a0\u00a0(e.g.,\u00a0john.doe@example.net)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul start=\"3\" class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-block-list wp-elements-d08a233f1298ca0939ce58607e7615b1\">\n<li>Click on the &#8220;<strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#7a00df\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Add Forwarder<\/mark><\/strong>&#8221; button to create the email forwarder.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"4\" class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-block-list wp-elements-df1b25c11db51d933203758f4af27727\"><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-909923320a8f312a12c1b6c30def33c0\">Once you follow these steps, the email forwarder will be set up, and any emails sent to the specified address will be automatically forwarded to the destination email address you have provided.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b29c1cfaa06d87f7293d3d75d75505b9\">Please note that setting up email forwarders doesn&#8217;t store the forwarded emails on the server, and they will not be accessible through webmail or any other email client.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>If you want to keep a copy of the forwarded emails on the server, you can use email filters to forward and retain copies of the emails in your inbox.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1e65f0a379c6198bc591e58592014f3c\">Additional Resources<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-block-list wp-elements-fa6bed7618b2e1199d19a5ba308f1981\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.cpanel.net\/cpanel\/\" style=\"color:#7a00df;\">cPanel Documentation<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cPanel email forwarder is a helpful feature that automatically forwards incoming emails from one email address to another. When someone sends an email to the forwarder email address, it gets forwarded to the specified destination email address without being stored in the original mailbox.\u00a0 In cPanel, setting up email forwarder is easy.\u00a0Here are the steps to set up an email forwarder:\u00a0 1. Log in to your cPanel account.\u00a0 2. In the &#8220;EMAIL&#8221; section, click on &#8220;Forwarders&#8220;.\u00a0 3. To create a new email forwarding rule, click the &#8220;Add Forwarder&#8221; button on the Forwarders page.\u00a0 4. Fill in the following details for the forwarder:\u00a0 Once you follow these steps, the email forwarder will be set up, and any emails sent to the specified address will be automatically forwarded to the destination email address you have provided.&nbsp; Please note that setting up email forwarders doesn&#8217;t store the forwarded emails on the server, and they will not be accessible through webmail or any other email client.\u00a0\u00a0If you want to keep a copy of the forwarded emails on the server, you can use email filters to forward and retain copies of the emails in your inbox.\u00a0 Additional Resources<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[39,204],"class_list":["post-3849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cp-email","category-cpanel","tag-cpanel","tag-email","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.7 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How to Set up cPanel Email Forwarder Easily?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Stop managing multiple inboxes! 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