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Unfortunately, I Don't Know This 'Simple' Thing

by King Shiloh Banned
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Yes, I know it's simple but I don't know it. What is it?

I don't know the importance of 'Email Forwarding' feature of a registered domain.

I discovered that most domain registrars offer Email Forwarding either as a free or paid feature but I don't know what I can do with that.

Can I use it to send and receive emails without hosting the domain?

What exactly is the importance of the feature?
#imple #thing
  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by King Shiloh View Post

    Can I use it to send and receive emails without hosting the domain?
    Yes, you don't need to host the domain to use the free email forwarding facility. You can (usually) even set up a "default" forwarding thing, whereby mail addressed to "anyone" (at) yourdomain.com will be forwarded to any email address you specify. (You can get a bit of spam, if you do, though). All three of the registrars I've used (GoDaddy, Namecheap and a UK one) have offered this facility.
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  • Profile picture of the author WillR
    Email forwarding is bascially where you can forward emails from one email address to another. Say you purchased the domain mysite.com. With the forwarding feature you could for example select to have any emails sent to yourname@mysite.com to your hotmail or gmail or any other email address you own.

    That's it in a nutshell.
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    • Profile picture of the author DireStraits
      You can set up a whatever@yourdomain.com alias/forwarder to forward email to an email address of your choosing, yes.

      But you cannot send emails from that address, and have it appear as being so in the "from:" field of the emails on the recipient's computer.

      Well, technically you can, but you'd have to fake the address in the "from:" field, and that could trigger many spam filters.

      If you want to send emails from an address like whatever@yourdomain.com, you should really host your domain properly with a web-host that provides POP/IMAP (incoming) and SMTP (outgoing) email servers, so that you can do this properly and "legitimately", and so that it appears as professional as possible.
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      • Profile picture of the author Marian
        yes, that's a very good ting, I use it on many of my domains - to forward the email to my gmail accounts.

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      • Profile picture of the author King Shiloh
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        Originally Posted by DireStraits View Post

        You can set up a whatever@yourdomain.com alias/forwarder to forward email to an email address of your choosing, yes.

        But you cannot send emails from that address, and have it appear as being so in the "from:" field of the emails on the recipient's computer.

        Well, technically you can, but you'd have to fake the address in the "from:" field, and that could trigger many spam filters.

        If you want to send emails from an address like whatever@yourdomain.com, you should really host your domain properly with a web-host that provides POP/IMAP (incoming) and SMTP (outgoing) email servers, so that you can do this properly and "legitimately", and so that it appears as professional as possible.
        Now, that's the confusion...You cannot...You can...

        Please I need more explanation.
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        • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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          Originally Posted by King Shiloh View Post

          Now, that's the confusion...You cannot...You can...

          Please I need more explanation.
          If using this "forwarded from the registrar" method, rather than a host's C-Panel (or equivalent), you can't send email from the domain. However, many email services will let you send email that appears to be from anywhere you like. (Often not with their free services, but with the most basic-level paid one).

          For example, I have an unhosted domain at Namecheap which forwards email to my fastmail account. From fastmail, I can set a "personality" which puts that domain's email address on the top of email sent out. To all intents and purposes, it's "the real thing". (I think this facility probably _isn't_ included with the free fastmail account, and I suspect that's probably true at Hotmail and others, too, but I'm not certain about that part).
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  • Profile picture of the author DireStraits
    Thanks Alexa. Was just about to reply to try to clear up the confusion, but no real need now.

    I'd probably just confuse things further, anyway.

    EDIT: Imagine trying to explain this sort of thing, hour-by-hour, day-by-day, to hundreds of frustrated customers who are even less technical. My life was hell.
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  • Profile picture of the author WillR
    You know those email you receive from Paypal that tell you your password has been wiped and you need to click on this link to reset it? And when you look at the sender it says from accounts@paypal.com or something similar?

    Well that is what's known as email phising. The email is sent from a totally different email address but they put another different email address in the from field so it appears to have come from a legitimate email address.

    This sets off the spam filters like nothing else. When the actual domain/server the email has come from is different to the address in the 'from:' field of the email.

    So you never want to do this. I would only really ever use email forwarders for receiving email. When sending email you always want to make sure the domain and from address are the same - that's if you want anyone to ever read that email.

    Did I just overcomplicate this? I think so... forgive me, it's getting late!
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  • Profile picture of the author King Shiloh
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    Thanks all.

    Okay, I have really understood this fr**g email forwarding stuff.
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