How to redirect one email to another: Complete Guide

In this tutorial you will learn how to redirect from one email to another. You will learn how to create email forwarders for your email using the function Email Forwarders implemented in the control panel of . You can also get this function under the name of forwarders in a .

Knowing how to do this is important if you want to redirect emails from one email to a different one. For example, in this tutorial, we will add a redirect to the email account test@hostingertutorials.com for emails to be forwarded to forwardhere@domain.com. You can use the same technique to forward an email to Gmail or any other email provider.

what you will need

• Access to control Panel of your hosting account.

Option 1: Redirect one email to another in the control panel

At , forwarding an email is incredibly simple. However, you must ensure that both email accounts used for forwarding are active and functional.

Step 1.1: Locate the email forwarding tool

To get started, you’ll need to navigate to the section email forwarders from your control panel. You can find it in the category Emails.

Step 1.2: Add and manage a forwarder

• In the section custom email addressyou will need to enter the name of the email box you want to be forwarded.
• Forward to email you will need to specify where the forwarded emails will go.

That is all! You have successfully created an email forwarder from test@hostingertutorials.com a forwardhere@domain.com. Information on this will appear in the section Manage forwarders. You can use this section to Edit your forwarder in case you made a mistake, or delete it if you no longer use it or it is not necessary.

Option 2: Redirect one email to another on hosting platforms with cPanel

If you are using cPanel, you also have a tool that you can use. This tutorial will cover from A to Z how to use the forwarders cPanel for email management.

Step 2.1: Find the “Forwarders” feature

1. Locate the search bar at the top of your screen cPanelas shown in the following screenshot:
2. Enter the keyword «forward» in the search bar and click the link forwarders that appears in the section E-mail:

Step 2.2: Using the “Add Forwarder” feature

After clicking the button forwardersyou will be taken to the main window of forwarders:

There are a few options you can choose here:

• Managing– You can manage a specific domain from the list or all domains that are assigned to this cPanel account.
• Add Forwarder: this is the option you should pay more attention to. It allows you to create an email forwarder for a specific email account.
• Add Domain Forwarder: This option allows you to create a domain forwarder. It basically means that all email accounts within a specific domain name will have a forwarder that will forward all incoming emails to a different domain. We will cover this option later in this tutorial.

For now, you can choose the option Add Forwarder. will pass you to the window Add a New Forwarder:

You must enter this information in the following fields:

• Address to Forward: Here you must enter the email account to which you want to add a forwarder. In our case, we will add test (we have created an email account test@thomvtutorials.com before starting this tutorial). IMPORTANT! ¡Nope you need to create an email account for the forwarder to work!
• Domain: From this list, we choose the domain name that has the email account of test.

After choosing the first two options, we get the result that the forwarder will be configured on this email account: test@thomvtutorials.com

Destination: for the destination, we have a few options:

• Forward to email address (Forward to Email Address): This is the option we chose for our example. With this option you can redirect one email to another. In our case, we have chosen to forward emails to letsforwardhere@thisdomain.com
• Discard and send an error to the sender: This option can be used if you want EVERYBODY emails that arrive at the specific email account are automatically discarded and an automated message is sent to the sender. The automatic message can be written in the field fault message. In our case, a message “There is no such person at this address.” it will be sent.

After clicking on «Advanced Options«, some additional options appear:

• Forward to a system account: We do not recommend this option, as all emails will be forwarded to a default cPanel system account (many hosting providers do not support the function of using the system account for personal needs).
• Pipe to a program: This is a very advanced option, we won’t cover it in this tutorial, but it basically allows you to forward your emails to a program that exists in your directory home.
• Discard: This option removes EVERYBODY incoming emails without taking any further action. We do not recommend this option because the sender you will not receive any warning message that your email did not reach the addressee.

In this tutorial, we have chosen to use the option Forward to Email Address. After filling in all the required information, click on the «Add Forwarder«. Shortly after, you should receive this confirmation message:

If you click go backyou should notice that a forwarder on the Email Account Forwarders:

Congratulations! You have successfully set up an email forwarder! From here you can manage:

• Email address: In this section, you can see an email address for which you have configured the forwarder.
• Forward to: shows where all your emails will be forwarded to.
• Actions: allows you to see the path a forwarded email takes.
• Remove: this option removes email forwarding.

Step 2.3: Using the Add Domain Forwarder Feature

In the main window of forwarderschoose the option Add Domain Forwarder. You will be taken to this window:

Here you can configure a forwarder to the whole domain. you will forward EVERYBODY emails arriving at the specific chosen domain to a different destination domain. In our case, we have chosen to forward all emails from thomvtutorials.com a thisdomain.comfor example, if an email is sent to test@thomvtutorials.com either test2@thomvtutorials.com and other email addresses, it will automatically be forwarded to the corresponding email address. thisdomain.com (test@thisdomain.com either test2@thisdomain.com).

IMPORTANT! As the official cPanel documentation says:

Domain forwarders can only forward an email to another email address when the system cannot deliver it to an address or autoresponder. For example, if a user sends an email to the address john@example1.com, the following actions can be taken:

• If there is a john@example1.com address or an autoresponder, cPanel will not forward the email.
• If there is no john@example1.com address or autoresponder, cPanel will resend the email.

Finally, click the button Add Domain Forwarder and you should be greeted with a confirmation window.

conclusion

In this tutorial, you have learned how to forward an email by creating and managing a Mail Forwarder using the control panel and the function forwarders implemented from cPanel for a . We hope that this tutorial covered all the main aspects and that you now know how to redirect one email to another.

In case you have any tips or tricks you want to share, feel free to do so in the comments.

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