---
title: "bird email mailboxes forwarding-address create"
description: "Create a mailbox forwarding address"
canonical: "https://bird.com/docs/cli/reference/email-mailboxes-forwarding-address-create"
---

# `bird email mailboxes forwarding-address create`

## Usage

```bash
bird email mailboxes forwarding-address create <mailbox-id> [flags]
```

## Description

Give a mailbox on your own domain an address on our receiving domain, so your current email provider can forward the mailbox's mail to it. Takes no request body; we choose the address. Returns the mailbox with `forwarding_address` set. If the mailbox already has one, returns it unchanged, so retrying is safe. Setting it up does not change DNS or your provider: add the forwarding rule there, then send a new test message to `address`. Returns `422` for a mailbox on the shared domain, which already receives directly, or when the domain is not verified in this workspace or another workspace receives mail for it.

## Examples

```bash
bird email mailboxes forwarding-address create <id>
```

## Options

| Name                | Description                                                  |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `--idempotency-key` | Deduplication key; a retry with the same key won't act twice |
| `--response-schema` | Print the fields this command returns, then exit             |

## Related resources

- [Should I use a Bird SDK or call the API directly?](/explained/platform/should-i-use-an-sdk-or-call-the-api-directly) (answer)
- [Build your first integration](/learn/paths/integration) (course)
- [Send your first email](/docs/get-started/send-your-first-email) (docs)

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