Does a forwarder require a matching email account, or can you have a standalone forwarder?

SRD

• January 16, 2021 18:53

Hi Folks, If I have no email accounts for a cPanel account, can I create a forwarder to forward say info@domain.com > my personal email account without having a separate email account for info@domain.com in cPanel? ie. Does a forwarder require a matching email account, or can you have a standalone forwarder? Thanks, Steve

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  ZenHostingTravis

  • January 18, 2021 03:59

  Hi Steve, You should have an email account created for the forwarder to forward the email to.

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  SRD

  • January 18, 2021 04:02

  I already have the email account to forward to. My web host is telling me I need the email account to match the email forwarder? (i.e. I can't have an email forwarder without an identical email account to match it - I don't think this is correct)

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  cPJustinD

  • January 18, 2021 14:37

  Hey there! You can configure a catchall email address from within the cPanel account. This will allow you to forward, discard, or pipe to a program any emails sent to an invalid email address for your domain. More on this can be found here:

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • January 20, 2021 15:50

  To further clarify, if you are just setting up a forwarder to an address *not* hosted on the cPanel server, you don't also need an email address to exist as well. Having only the forwarder is perfectly fine.

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