An email forwarder will allow you to automatically receive in a designated email account, a copy of every email sent to an email account. So, if you have created an email at yz@yyourdomain.com and created a forwarder which directs your email to a certain gmail.com account, it simply means that each time an email is sent to yz@yourdomain.com, you will receive a copy at the gmail.com account you have directed the forwarder to

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