Please note - You do not have to create a POP3 email account to create a forwarder. Why create an Email Forwarder?
Scenario No 1
Defining the email accounts you will allow and rejecting the rest as spammers often generate random email names using your domain.
You have created one POP3 email account called sales@yourdomain.com but you want to allow other email names to be used but forwarded back to the email account sales@yourdomain.co.nz.
You might might to use forwarders like admin, enquiries, support etc.
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Scenario No 2
You may not wish to use the domain email features available with your web hosting account, but you do want to use your domain email account and forward this to another email address
Example:-
You want to use sales@yourdomain.com but you want any emails forwarded to another email address called mike@xtra.co.nz .
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Extra Information
Default Email Address
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Log into your CPANEL
Under the email section choose Forwarders
Click on Add Forwarder
Scenario 1
For this example we have requested that mike@compumedia.co.nz be directed back to mike@nzservers.com 
Note:- some of you may see a dropdown option for the forwarder.
This will enbale you to select other domains attached to your domain, like parked domains, subdomains or add on domains.
Click Add forwarded to add your Forwarder
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Scenario 2
You may want your email forwarded to your ISP's email address.
Choose Add Forwarder Button
Example:-
You want to forward all mike@compumedia.co.nz to nz50mw@xtra.co.nz 
Note:- some of you may see a dropdown option for the forwarder.
This will enbale you to select other domains attached to your domain, like parked domains, subdomains or add on domains.
Click Add forwarded to add your Forwarder
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Extra Notes
Default Email Address
You will have noticed when you selected the forwarder option some information about the default email address, known as a catch all address.
Make sure this is set to :fail: no such address here
By default this should be set to fail 
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