You can send a copy of your emails to an email address, to a program, to another domain, or delete them.
Prerequisites
Access to cPanel
Task completion: 5 minutes (max)
Expertise: intermediate
How to do it?
To redirect an email from an email address A to an email address B, the email address A must not exist. If the email address A exists, both addresses A and B will receive the message. This may increase the number of inodes (250,000 max) in your cPanel account.
So, if you want to forward all incoming emails from one account to another but don't want to receive emails on the first account, create a redirect from an address that does not have an email account. If the account already exists, delete it.
Domain redirects send copies of all inbound emails from one domain to another domain (Alias), for example [email protected] to [email protected]. The [email protected] email address should not exist.
Use the option that suits your needs.
Add a Forwarder
Log in to cPanel
Select “Forwarders”, under the Email group
Click on the “Add Forwarder” button
Enter the account name, “Address to Forward” and select the domain, “Domain”
(For [email protected] you would enter contact and select domain.tld)Enter the Destination: (View Options)
Click on the “Add Forwarder” button
Options
Forward to Email Address: Enter the email address to which you want to redirect emails, for example: [email protected]
Discard and send an error to the sender: Discard and send a failure message, example: “No such person at this address.”
Forward to a system account: Send the message to the cPanel user's mailbox (Advanced)
Pipe to a Program: Send the message to a script which will analyze the content. (Advanced)
Discard (Not Recommended)
Add a Domain Forwarder
To forward all emails from one domain to another domain. You must make sure that there are no email addresses or auto responder configured for the first domain.
Log in to cPanel
Select “Forwarders”, under the Email group
Click on the “Add Domain Forwarder” button
Select the domain name you want to forward
Enter the destination domain name
Click on the “Add Domain Forwarder” button
Shortcuts
cPanel > Email >> Forwarders