Email Forwarders

Email forwarders automatically redirect messages from one address to another, acting as aliases so important mail never slips through the cracks. A forwarder can send to a single destination or to several at once.

Creating a Forwarder

  1. Open the Forwarders section
    In the Control Panel at email.adastra.ad, navigate to Forwarders.
  2. Click Create Forwarder
    Start a new forwarder definition.
  3. Set the forwarder address
    This is the address that receives the incoming mail (e.g. sales@yourdomain.com).
  4. Set the destination address(es)
    Enter where messages should be redirected. You can specify multiple destinations to fan a single address out to several recipients.
  5. Save
    Confirm to activate the forwarder.

Multiple destinations

A single forwarder can deliver to more than one address — handy for shared inboxes like support@ or info@ that several people need to receive.

Managing Forwarders

From the same management interface you can:

  • View all active forwarders.
  • Modify the destination address(es) of an existing forwarder.
  • Remove forwarders that are no longer needed.

Best Practices

  • Audit regularly. Periodically review your forwarders and remove any that are out of date.
  • Test immediately. Send a message to each new forwarder right after creating it to confirm it delivers correctly.
  • Avoid loops. Don’t create forwarding chains that could route a message back on itself and generate a loop.
  • Mind spam filtering. Forwarding mail to a different provider can affect deliverability — see the warning below.

Forwarding to major providers

Forwarding to large mailbox providers such as Gmail, Outlook or Yahoo can pass spam along under your server’s reputation. For this reason, Expert Spam Filtering cannot be disabled while forwarders point to those providers.

Forwarders work alongside the rest of Overton.cloud’s email toolkit: Email Accounts, Default Folders, and Expert Spam Filtering.

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