May 2016

E-mail forwarding is a service through which e-mail messages are resent from a certain account to another. Example: you have created webmaster@yourdomainname.com, info@yourdomainname.com, etc. but you would like to have all the e-mails going to one and the same e-mail box, jim@yourdomainname.com.

Adding an email forwarder

Check out the Adding an email forwarder video tutorial: Adding an Email Forwarder Video Tutorial

Adding an email forwarder detailed tutorial

Step 1: To access the forwarders menu, click on the Forwarders icon on the main screen of your cPanel interface.
Step 2: Click on Add Forwarder.
Step 3: Put the name of the email address you wish to forward from in the first blank field. For example: for user@yourdomainname.com, put user in the first blank field.
You can choose to what address the incoming mail should be forwarded. The other option is to choose a failure message which will be returned to the sender.
If you click on Advanced Options, you will be able to choose to forward the message to a system account, pipe it to a program or discard the forwarded mail.
Step 4: Click on Add Forwarder to add the forwarder.
To delete a forwarder, simply click on the Delete button next to it.
Make sure you have spelled both email addresses correctly when adding forwarders.
It is very easy to change your email password through your cPanel. You will be able to make this update even if you do not remember your current email password. To change the password you need to follow the steps below:
Step 1: Login to your cPanel
Step 2:  From the cPanel home, you need to click on the Email Accounts icon.
Step 3:
 From the mail menu, select Change Password next to the mail account whose password you wish to modify.
Step 4 A new panel will be opened. Fill in the new password and click on the Change Password button to save it.
If you want to delete an email account, you can do this from the same tool, you used to create accounts - the Email Accounts tool in cPanel. You will find it under the Mail category.
In it, simply find the account you want to remove in the table of registered email accounts and press the Delete link next to it.
You will be taken to a page which asks you for confirmation. Confirm, if you're sure you want to delete the account.
If you prefer, you can check out our email video tutorial for detailed instructions on how to manage your email accounts.

How to create email account in cPanel

In order to create new email account in cPanel, follow the instructions below:

1. Log in to your cPanel > Mail section > Email Accounts menu:



2. If you have multiple domains, select the domain you want your email account to be associated with in the drop-down list in the top right corner and enter the desired email and a strong password of your choice:



Click on Create Account once all is set.

3. To log in webmail, click on More next to the email account in question > Access Webmail:



4. Once done, you will see the icons of the three webmail interfaces:



5. Feel free to choose any access webmail

Horde webmail interface:



Roundcube webmail interface:



SquirrelMail webmail interface:



6. You can also access webmail directly in the browser using one of the following links:

https://yourdomain.com:2096
https://yourdomain.com/webmail
http://webmail.yourdomain.com