DNS and e-mail

[scythe]

Let's say I have a domain name, say http://mydomainname.org/, and an e-mail address, say [email protected]. Is it possible to set up [email protected] to point to [email protected]? How would I go about doing this?

[t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư]

If you "have" the domain as in you have your own webserver and are paying for the DNS name, then it's on you to set up an email server and forward your mail. But if you're renting the domain from some company, ask how their email service works and see if you can use their interface for email to that domain to forward to the desired email.

[Hendor]

I'm pretty sure what you're talking about is just mail forwarding. POP3 is what's used and any hosting site will have it for sure. GoDaddy for example, offers 50 POP3 email addresses with their base account. All you do to set it up is enter the incoming and outgoing server in your mail reader (Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird...) and any messages will be downloaded from the server whenever you open the reader. I get mail from 5 different email addresses in Mail on my Mac. If a service offers POP3, they probably also offer simple email forwarding, which basically re-sends any incoming mail to a different address. My university email account, which can't even do POP3 offers this.

[jean-luc]

A POP3 configuration wouldn't be mail forwarding, rather it would simple be using an alternative client. I doubt Hushmail has this capability (gmail is the only web based email service I am aware of that will download mail from other servers via POP/IMAP). It is a typical feature of mailservers to allow you to forward mail from a certain address to another certain address. This will usually be accomplished either with a simple 'Forward mail' option or via setting a filter on all email that forwards to another account and then deletes the original. Ask your webhost for additional details. If you're managing your own server, you'll need to write the rule file on your own. Google around with the mail server that the server runs and you'll probably find a tutorial.

[Pembie]

You can set this up using a hosting service. If you're using cPanel there is an email fording option that will forward emails from [email protected] to [email protected] whatever you want.

[scythe]

A POP3 configuration wouldn't be mail forwarding, rather it would simple be using an alternative client. I doubt Hushmail has this capability (gmail is the only web based email service I am aware of that will download mail from other servers via POP/IMAP). It is a typical feature of mailservers to allow you to forward mail from a certain address to another certain address. This will usually be accomplished either with a simple 'Forward mail' option or via setting a filter on all email that forwards to another account and then deletes the original. Ask your webhost for additional details. If you're managing your own server, you'll need to write the rule file on your own. Google around with the mail server that the server runs and you'll probably find a tutorial.

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This what you're talking about? Anyway, thanks for the answers, guys. I'll give it a shot.

[jean-luc]

yup, that's exactly what I'm talking about. apparently HushMail does have that capability. thinking about it, I think Yahoo does too now.