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Have you ever emailed a professional organization or business, only to see them reply via a Gmail, Yahoo!, or Hotmail account? If so, you probably wondered how they were able to do this. They are able to reply from a different email address because they have enabled email forwarding, an incredibly useful tool for your web hosting account.

Email forwarding is kind of similar to regular postal mail forwarding when you change your address or use a PO Box, etc. You have your mail sent to a new place, where you can respond at ease.

Email forwarding works exactly the same way, except you can continuously forward email from one account to another. This is extremely helpful if you access your Gmail account more often than your web hosting account.

For example, let’s say you have sales@yourname.com. This is the email address you have on your business  cards, business web hosting contact page, and the email associated with all sales requests for your business. But you really don’t like logging into your web hosting webmail, because it’s not as familiar to you as your Gmal account. But in Gmail, you have buffy001@gmail.com, which is not a professional email you feel comfortable giving out to potential or current clients.

So you can forward sales@yourname.com to buffy001@gmail.com using email forwarding! That way, you can read and even respond (if you choose to) from the comfort of your Gmail account, even though all your clients are emailing your professional Sales email, provided by your website host.

The Best Web Hosting companies normally provide unlimited email forwarding, which means you can forward to any address you’d like. You can even forward multiple addresses – for example, sales@ might go to buffy001, but support@ goes to another employee of yours over at batman007@yahoo.com. The possibilities here are truly endless.