Forwarder’s are just that: They forward email from one account to another. This is done for many reasons such as for signing up for subscriptions, membership to message boards, mailing lists and a host of other reasons. It’s mostly done for privacy as well as to funnel email to one main account. If for some reason you begin to get spam to one of your forwarders, you’ll know then that the place you used it on has sold your email address or it’s been harvested by spammers. You can then delete it and create another if you decide to.
To set up a forwarder, first logon to your account’s cPanel and click on Forwarders as seen in the image below:
The next screen will show that no forwarders have been configured yet so click on Add Forwarder to create one as displayed in the next image. 
Now, enter the email account that you want forwarded (this does not need to be a pre-existing one*) and then select the domain you want to use (if you have several available). Next, enter the email address that you want the email forwarded to such as a GMail, Hotmail or Yahoo account if not one you already have created yourself in cPanel Mail. You can forward an email from cPanel to almost any other email account you wish to.
An example would be: joe@somedomain.com forwarded to joe’s GMail account.
*By pre-existing I mean that you don’t have to create the email account first. It will still work just fine as a forwarder.
Now let’s learn how to access your email via the web with Web Mail.
