Hi, I'd like to setup an email account so that it looks more professional than my current email address.

Right now, I own two domain names: one for my portfolio/homepage, and one for my online gallery. For the moment, let's call them: www.portfolio.com and www.gallery.com.

My current hosting package includes cPanel, which is attached to www.portfolio.com (www.gallery.com is set as an ADDON domain).

My REAL email address is xxxxx@gmail.com.

What I would ideally like to do is have email addresses like this:
me@portfolio.com
me@gallery.com

And obviously I will need the mail sent to those addresses sent to my gmail account.

I know cPanel has Email Forwarding included, and I watched the video tutorial, but to be honest I'm still not sure how exactly to set it up so that it works. I've tried setting up email forwarding in the past and it's never actually been forwarded to my actual email address.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

options, personal information, Edit advanced Options, Add a New Identity.
Then set up your forwarding and then test it.
Thats on squirell mail, don't use all that new fangled cube stuff so that might be different.

Click "Add Forwarder"

Type in the name to accept mail for ie "Me" (no quotes)
Select the hostname from the "dropdown".
Select the"Forward to email address:" radio button
Type in the destination email address ie: me@gmail.com
Click the "Add Forwarder" button

repeat for as many email addresses as you need.

NOTE
If the name has a mailbox AND a forwarder, the message will be delivered to BOTH locations.

Okay, I'll give it a shot and test it out.

In the meantime, is there any way that I can reply to emails sent to those addresses and have my outgoing email address masked as the one they sent it to?

For exmaple, if I were to reply to an incoming message sent to me@gallery.com, could I mask my outgoing address to be me@gallery.com instead of me@gmail.com?

Update: I setup my forwarders and tried sending a test email to both, but so far I haven't received anything...any ideas?

You have to set up your accounts first then your forwarding.

In Gmail -> Settings ->
Accounts and Import ->
Send mail as: click the "Send mail from another address" button ->
Click 'Specify a different "reply-to" address (optional)' and fill in the blanks with the email you want to use ->
click "Next Step" ->
Select what mail servers to use ->
Fill in the details ->
Click add account ->
Check your email for the confirmation and verify that is is set up Ok.

I still haven't received the test emails I sent to my two forwarders. Do those email accounts have to actually exist or something?

Also, what do I use for what mail servers to use?

Will this affect ALL outgoing mail, or just certain ones? (ie. I wouldn't want to mask my address 100% of the time).

Update: I setup my forwarders and tried sending a test email to both, but so far I haven't received anything...any ideas?

Use the "Trace" link on the forwarder page to test the routing.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Use the "Trace" link on the forwarder page to test the routing.

Everything shows green for both forwarders (according to the Legend this means SMTP Destination). Is that what it should be?

Do those email accounts have to actually exist or something?

No.

Also, what do I use for what mail servers to use?

What we do for clients who want to use "Live" or "Gmail" is to setup an mail account that that does not accept incoming mail, but can be used to logon to the SMTP server to relay messages.

Originally Posted by Iconoclast

I still haven't received the test emails I sent to my two forwarders. Do those email accounts have to actually exist or something?

Probably would work better if they did exist

Originally Posted by Iconoclast

Everything shows green for both forwarders (according to the Legend this means SMTP Destination). Is that what it should be?

Should be, it means that it is routing through your mail server correctly.

Have you checked the spam bin at gmail?

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Should be, it means that it is routing through your mail server correctly.

Have you checked the spam bin at gmail?

Yes, checked all of my folders, I haven't received anything

^^^^I think you will find he has no email accounts set up on his domain names yet.

Originally Posted by ThailandForum

Probably would work better if they did exist

No it wouldn't, the messages would be delivered to both the local mailbox and the remote host.

^you have lost me, normally I have 5 email accounts for each domain, ie admin etc etc, these are all forwarded to the dominant domain to 2 different addresses, ie webmaster and admin, but you have to create the accounts yourself.

Anyways. I'm not terribly concerned with masking the outgoing address. But I would really like to get this forwarding working. Is there anything else I can do or try?

Originally Posted by ThailandForum

^you have lost me, normally I have 5 email accounts for each domain, ie admin etc etc, these are all forwarded to the dominant domain to 2 different addresses, ie webmaster and admin, but you have to create the accounts yourself.

If you create a mailbox (account) AND a forwarder with the same recipient name every message will goto BOTH mailbox and forward address.

Originally Posted by Iconoclast

Anyways. I'm not terribly concerned with masking the outgoing address. But I would really like to get this forwarding working. Is there anything else I can do or try?

Ok where are you sending the test messages from?
How long have the hostnames been setup?
Has DNS propagated?
can you "ping" the mailserver?