Setting up an Email ForwarderWritten By: Brad Markle
Experience Level: Beginner
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Email forwarding is a way to send an email that is delivered to one email address to a different email address. What are Email Forwarders?Email forwarders allow you to send a copy of an email from one email address to another email address automatically. If you have mutliple email addresses for you business one good use for email forwarders to to have all the messages forward to one account. So if you have a sales@yourdomain.com, service@yourdomain.com, and support@yourdomain.com email addresses all of them can be sent to one account such as customers@yourdomain.com. That way, you will no longer have to check all the email accounts. You will only need to check the customers@yourdomain.com account. Setting up email forwarders can be done through cPanel or through your webmail login page: Start by logging in to webmail. Remember, you can log in to webmail by visiting yourdomain.com/webmail. Also be sure to use the full email address as the username and the password associated with the email account you are logging into. Now, you will need to verify you are logged into the correct email address and click "Forwarding Options" This screen shows you currently have no forwarders set up. Click the "Add Forwarder" button Fil in the field with the address to forward to and click "add forwarder" Now, go back to "forwarding options" and verify that your forwarder is set up properly! |
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