How to Set Up Email Forwarding in cPanel

March 22, 2019 / cPanel & WHM

Email forwarding is useful if you have multiple email accounts but want all your emails to arrive in one inbox. Email forwarding enables you to forward emails from one account to another account.


To set up email forwarding, follow these instructions.

  1. Log in to your cPanel account.
  2. Scroll to the email section and click on the Forwarders iconForwarders
  3. On the Forwarders page, you have two options.
    • If you want to forward mail from a single email account to another, click on the blue Add Forwarder icon.
    • If you want to forward the mail of all the addresses from one domain to another email account, click the Add Domain Forwarder box.
Add Domain Forwarder

Adding a single account forwarder

To forward mail from one account to another:

  1. Type in the name information (everything before the @ sign) of the address you want to be forwarded.
  2. Select the domain of the email address (everything after the @ sign) from the dropdown box.
  3. Fill in the email address you would like the emails to be forwarded to.  
  4. Click Add Forwarder
Adding a single account forwarder

To forward mail from all the domain’s accounts

To forward all the mail sent to one domain:

  1. Select the domain from the dropdown box.
  2. Fill in the email address you would like the emails to be forwarded to. 
  3. Click Add Domain Forwarder  
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