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title: How to Set Up Email Forwarding (Forwarders) in cPanel
description: "**In short:** To forward email automatically: in cPanel open Forwarders, click Add Forwarder, enter the address to forward and the destination address, and save. To forward all email for a domain, use Add Domain Forwarder. Email forwarding sends incoming messages…"
url: "https://www.hyyat.com/en/knowledgebase/cpanel-email-forwarders/"
updated: "2026-09-29"
category: Website control panel ( cpanel )
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# How to Set Up Email Forwarding (Forwarders) in cPanel

**In short:** To forward email automatically: in cPanel open Forwarders, click Add Forwarder, enter the address to forward and the destination address, and save. To forward all email for a domain, use Add Domain Forwarder.

Email forwarding sends incoming messages for one email address to a different address. This guide shows how to create a forwarder in cPanel, and how to forward all email for a domain.

## What is email forwarding?

If your business has several addresses, such as **sales@example.com**, **service@example.com** and **support@example.com**, you can forward all of them to one account such as **customers@example.com**. Forwarders can be set up in cPanel or from Webmail.

cPanel offers two types of forwarders:

- **Email account forwarders:** the most common type. They forward messages for one address (for example information@example.com) to another address (for example helpdesk@example.com). You can create several forwarders to send one address to several accounts.
- **Domain forwarders:** forward all incoming email for one domain to another domain, for example from test.example.com to example.com.

## 1. Forward an email address

**1.** Log in to cPanel. See [how to log in to cPanel](https://www.hyyat.com/knowledgebase/%d8%b4%d8%b1%d8%ad-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%af%d8%ae%d9%88%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b3%d9%8a-%d8%a8%d9%86%d9%84/).

**2.** In the **Email** section of cPanel, click **Forwarders**.

![Forwarders in cPanel](https://www.hyyat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/email_forwarders.png)

**3.** Under **Create an Email Account Forwarder**, click **Add Forwarder**.

![Add Forwarder](https://www.hyyat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/email_forwarders1.png)

**4.** In **Address to Forward**, type the email username you want to forward. In **Destination**, type the full email address that should receive the messages. Click **Add Forwarder**.

![Create the email forwarder](https://www.hyyat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/email_forwarders2.png)

The forwarder is created and now appears in the list on the Forwarders page.

## 2. Forward all email for a domain

**1.** In the **Email** section of cPanel, click **Forwarders**.

**2.** Click **Add Domain Forwarder**.

![Add Domain Forwarder](https://www.hyyat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/email_forwarders4.png)

**3.** Select the domain to forward email from, enter the domain to forward it to, and save.

![Create the domain forwarder](https://www.hyyat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/email_forwarders5.png)

**Note:** according to the cPanel documentation, domain forwarding only applies when delivery would otherwise fail. If a message is sent to an address that exists as a mailbox or autoresponder, it is not forwarded.

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