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

[SRD]

Hi Folks,

If I have no email accounts for a cPanel account, can I create a forwarder to forward say [email protected] > my personal email account without having a separate email account for [email protected] in cPanel?

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

Thanks,
Steve

 

[ZenHostingTravis]

Hi Steve,

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

 

[SRD]

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)

 

[cPJustinD]

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:

How-to configure the catchall email address

Introduction The catchall email address will receive any mail for an invalid email address for its domain. This article aims to assist you with configuring the catchall email address for a cPanel a...

support.cpanel.net

Let us know if this helps!

 

[cPRex]

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.