Simplify your life and reduce the time you spend on email by using cPanel to forward email to anaddress, such as one at Google Gmail that consolidates multiple email addresses and has more features. There are a variety of scenarios that forwarding can be your friend and helpful assistant. Some examples:
I don’t use Outlook or download my email anymore because I prefer to leave it on the server where I can access it from any computer or mobile device. Let’s face it, cPanel’s email web interfaces (Horde, SquirrelMail and RoundCube) were nice years ago, but they are lousy on an iPhone and lack the features and power of Gmail.
You manage a number of sites and quickly get overrun with lots of email addresses. Instead of trying to remember to checkmany email addresses, send all email to a single address that you check.
You want to keep your emails to conduct searches later but do not have enough disk space. Gmail offers a tremendous amount of free storage space where you can archive your emails.
Here is how to set up email forwarding. I assume the email address is already set up.
- Log into cPanel. Look for the icon and link named ”Forwarders.” (Shown at the top of this post.)
- Click the button “Add Forwarder.”
- Fill in the address to forward. Then fill in the field where you want the email forwarded to.
- Click the “Add Forwarder” button and you are done.
This is optional but also helpful: in Gmail, you can set up powerful filters (“Settings” | “Filters”) to manage these emails do they do not all get dumped into one big inbox.
Forwarding email to another email address is a useful and powerful tool that helps simplify my life.
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