{"id":1214,"date":"2020-09-22T06:32:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T06:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2020\/09\/22\/4468919-how-to-set-up-a-forwarder-for-cpanel-email-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:12:13","slug":"4468919-how-to-set-up-a-forwarder-for-cpanel-email-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4468919-how-to-set-up-a-forwarder-for-cpanel-email-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Set Up a Forwarder for cPanel Email at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">Email forwarders are a useful tool to automatically redirect messages from one email address to another.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"h_4c55670479\">How to Create Email Forwarders<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">Navigate to the <b>Forwarders<\/b> section under <b>Email<\/b> on your cPanel:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/09\/07d4dd17-036d-4879-8a5e-6db8cf2c6848.jpg\" alt=\"The Forwarders option on cPanel\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">And select <b>Add Forwarder<\/b>. There, enter the following:<\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Adress to Forward<\/b> &ndash; the email username (without the domain name) that will be forwarded<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Domain <\/b>&ndash; select the domain from the dropdown list<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Check the box <b>Forward to Email Address <\/b>and fill in the full destination email address<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"no-margin\">When all is good to go, and click on <b>Add Forwarder<\/b> to apply the changes.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"h_f7447a1f1e\">How to Manage Email Forwarders<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">In the <b>Forwarders<\/b> section, navigate to <b>Email Account Forwarders<\/b>, where you will find the management options:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/09\/c6c3dbc7-cf32-45c8-ae0b-5e9a6ca7f5ef.jpg\" alt=\"The Email Account Forwarders section on cPanel showing how to trace or delete a forwarder\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">To locate a possible routing error, select <b>Trace<\/b>. To remove the forwarder, click on <b>Delete<\/b>. After deletion, your emails will stop being forwarded. If needed, you can re-create a deleted forwarder at any time.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Additional Resources<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.cpanel.net\/cpanel\/email\/forwarders\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Forwarders &ndash; cPanel Documentation<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating email forwarders on cPanel to redirect emails<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email-cpanel"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4468919-how-to-set-up-a-forwarder-for-cpanel-email-at-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/4468919-comment-configurer-une-redirection-pour-les-emails-de-cpanel-chez-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/4468919-cara-setup-forwarder-di-cpanel-email\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/4468919-como-criar-gerenciar-encaminhadores-de-email-existentes-no-cpanel-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/4468919----\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4746,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions\/4746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}