ForPan - Manage cPanel Email Forwarders

Benefits of Using Email Forwarders

Email forwarders are a powerful tool for managing your inbox and protecting your privacy. They allow you to create unique email addresses that automatically forward messages to your primary inbox. Here are some key benefits of using them:

  1. Give Out Unique Email Addresses to Individual Services
    2. Instead of sharing your primary email, you can create a unique forwarder for each service you sign up for. For example, if you register on a shopping site, you might use shopping@yourdomain.com, which forwards to your main inbox.
  2. Track Who Shares Your Email Address
    3. By using different forwarders for different services, you can easily see if a company shares your email with third parties. If you start receiving spam to a specific forwarder, you’ll know exactly who leaked your address.
  3. Easily Remove or Change an Email Address
    4. If a particular email forwarder starts receiving too much spam, you can simply delete or disable it without affecting your primary inbox. This fine-tuned control lets you manage your email privacy efficiently.
  4. Reduce Spam and Protect Your Identity
    5. Since forwarders can be deleted or replaced at any time, you can minimize spam and unwanted messages. You also reduce the risk of exposing your real email address, which helps protect against phishing and other attacks.

Using email forwarders gives you better control over your inbox, improves security, and helps keep your email address private.

Managing Forwarders with cPanel

cPanel's email forwarders are a reliable way to manage email aliases, but the interface could use some streamlining. While the functionality is solid, the process of setting up and managing forwarders requires more clicks than necessary.

Instead of a quick, inline setup, users must navigate through multiple screens, enter details manually, and confirm settings before a forwarder is in place. This works fine for occasional changes, but if you manage multiple addresses, it can feel a bit clunky.

cPanel does not allow to store more details with each forwarder, e.g. when it was created or for which purpose. Therefore one often encodes more details into the alias address of a forwarder like date or name of the service which makes the forwarder address odd looking.

Managing Forwarders with ForPan

ForPan is a desktop GUI app which provides a convenient environment with you can manage your email forwarders. ForPan talks to the API of your cPanel service to read, update, and delete actual forwarders.

Features:

  1. Easy to navigate UI.
  2. Incremental search.
  3. Additional attributes for each forwarder

Get ForPan

Get the ForPan source from Github.