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Hosting Control Panel User Guide

Email Forwarding

You can have any or all your email forwarded to an outside email account or to a different email address within your domain. Here you can learn how to:

• understanding email forwarding
• creating email forwarding accounts
• editing mail forwards
• removing mail forwards

Understanding Email Forwarding

Mail forwards redirect all mail sent to the mail forwarding email address to other email addresses within your domain name or to an external email address.

Creating Email Forwarding Accounts

To create a mail forward:

1. Click New E-mail on the Mail Controls page:

2. On the configuration page, that you will be taken to, enter the mail forward name in the Email address field.
3. Check the Catch All box to resend messages to a nonexistent account on the mail domain to addressees entered in the mailforward configuration form.
   If catch all isn't enabled on any mail resource running on the mailforward's mail domain, such messages will bounce back to the sender with an error notification.
4. Check the box next to MAIL FORWARD.
5. Enter destination e-mail addresses separated with ',' or ';' or 'ENTER' or 'TAB' or 'SPACE':

6. Click the Submit button at the bottom of the form.

Editing Mail Forwards

First, click the forward e-mail address in the E-mail list on the Mail Controls page:

To add e-mail addresses to the list of destination addresses:

1. Enter destination e-mail addresses separated with ',' or ';' or 'ENTER' or 'TAB' or 'SPACE':

2. Click the Submit button at the bottom of the form.

To remove e-mail addresses from the list of destination addresses:

1. Check the Delete box next to the e-mail address you'd like to remove from the list of forwards.
2. Click the Submit button at the bottom of the form.

Removing Mail Forwards

To remove a mail forward and preserving other mail services (such as mailbox, mail alias, etc.) running on this e-mail address:

1. Click the mail forward e-mail address in the E-mail list on the Mail Controls page as when you are editing mail forward.
2. Uncheck the MAIL FORWARD box.
3. Click the Submit button at the bottom of the form.

To remove a mail forward AND all other mail services (such as mailbox, mail alias, etc.) running on this e-mail address, click the Trash icon in the mail forward Properties entry on the Mail Controls page:

To delete a Catch All mail forward, first switch Catch All off.