Creating email forwarders

Published 03/03/2009 03.37 PM   |    Updated 16/07/2021 02.49 PM
How do I add a new forwarder?

While you can add email forwarding to any domain name in your account, if you already have a hosting package with Fasthosts, you can create individual email forwarders to forward email from one address to another.

For example: If you have a forwarder you@yourdomain.co.uk, you could set it to forward all mail to you@gmail.com.

Difficulty

How long will it take me?

  • Around 3 minutes to create the forwarder in your control panel.

What will I need?

Step 1

Log in to your control panel

Step 2

Select Web Hosting from the Hosting & Domains menu

Web Hosting

Step 3

A list of your hosting packages will appear. Click on the package you want to setup spam filters for.

My Hosting

Step 4

Click the Email tab.

My Email banner

Step 5

Click the Add a Forwarder button.

Add Forwarder

If you would like to forward all emails sent to your domain name you can create a catch all forwarder.

Step 6

In the Create email address section enter the email address for your mailbox, and the display name you would like to use. The display name is usually what other people see when they receive your emails.

Forwarder From

Step 7

Next, enter the email address you would like the mails to forward to and click Create Forwarder.

You can forward a copy of each email to several email addresses by entering each destination address on a new line.

Forwarder To

Your forwarder has now been set up and is ready to use. 

In most cases the email forwarder will be ready to use immediately.  However, in some rare circumstances it may take a little longer, especially if there are a lot of simultaneous mailbox creations.  If your email forwarder is not ready after 30 minutes, please don't hesitate in getting in contact with us.

Our mail forwarders are subject to the same sending limits of our normal mailboxes:

  • 50 emails in one instance.
  • 50 emails in a 10 minute period.
  • 1000 emails in a 24 hour period.

This article was last updated on 16/07/2021 02.49 PM