GoDaddy Email “Forwarding”

One of the best ways to promote your own domain name is through your email address. People are much more inclined to remember the name if they use it when they email you.

If your domain is with GoDaddy, creating this email address and having it forward directly into existing email box is easy.

Although your domain name does come with an optional mailbox, if you create a mailbox on GoDaddy, you can’t forward your mail.

You can only forward your mail by using one of GoDaddy’s Email Forwarding Plans. GoDaddy allows you 100 forwarding plans for each domain name. This means that you can use separate email address for individual promotions and track the response.

To setup your Email Forwarding Plan, log into your GoDaddy account. Then click on Domains.
On the right side, under My Products, choose Free Products.

In the center of the screen, choose Email Account List. Under the Yellow Box, choose Email Forwarding Plans.

Go Daddy will then ask if you want to “Use Credit” for the forwarding. Click Use Credit.

It will then ask which Domain Name you want to associate with the email forwarding.
Choose the correct domain name and click Continue.
A box will appear saying “Thank you!” Close this box.

Now, if necessary using the above info, get back to Email Forwarding Plans, It should now show a New Account. Click “Setup Account”.

You have 100 Available forwarding accounts. Click Add, and setup the first account:
MyName@MyDomainName.com
Fill in the email address where you want this email name to forward.

Decide if you want this to be a “Catchall” mailbox. A catchall mailbox will accept anything from ?????@MyDomainName.com.

If you’re planning on creating multiple email accounts for the domain name, you don’t want the catchall box.

If you change your mind about this, you can change it later.

Click OK.
Continue to add additional email forwarding names.

To test that this is working, send yourself an email to the email address you just setup. It should be delivered to the email box you indicated.

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