Mail forwarders are useful to forward the mails from one e-mail address to another e-mail address. For eg: if you change your e-mail address and don’t want to lose your e-mails that come into your old e-mail address, you can use forwarders. This article explains how to create a mail forwarder in cPanel. cPanel is one of the most used web-hosting control panels.
Step (1). Log in to your cPanel account.
Step (2). Click on the Forwarders icon. Usually, this is under the Mail section.
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Step (3). Click on Add Forwarder button to create an e-mail forwarder.
Step (4). In Add a New Forwarder page, provide the old e-mail address in the Address to Forward: field. And provide the new e-mail address in the Forward to e-mail address: field.
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Step (5). Click on Add Forwarder button. It will add a forwarder and going forward all e-mails sent to your old e-mail address will be forwarded to your new e-mail address.
Once your mail forwarder is created, it will be listed under the forwarders’ list.
Check your e-mails addresses to test whether your changes are working fine or not.