Monday 20 November 2006
Mail Forwarding
For years I've been using Zoneedit's free service to forward mail for accounts @ocallahan.org to various destinations (currently GMail accounts). Unfortunately Zoneedit's service seems to have deteriorated lately; many mails are delayed by half an hour or more inside Zoneedit's system, and I suspect one or more may have been dropped, although I can't prove that yet. Any readers have tips for a more reliable but free service to achieve the same thing? "Google Apps For Your Domain" is close, but apparently overkill for what I want since it seems to give you fresh GMail mailboxes for the domain email addresses, and I just want forwarding to existing accounts.
The Firefox Summit was fantastic. I met literally dozens of people I've worked with for years but never met face to face, and I had lots of fun. I'll probably write more about it soon.
Update! On the advice of an anonymous commenter, I tried using Google Apps For Your Domain, setting up one "email list" per name@ocallahan.org, each containing one recipient, the address I want to forward to. It works great! Email propagation time is reduced from 10-30+ minutes to about ten seconds, and I only have had to create one extra GMail account (root@ocallahan.org, the administrator). Thanks Anonymous (and Google)!
Comments
* If you're not using catchalls, then it's easier to just set up a Google Apps "Email List" for each address that you want forwarded; otherwise, if you are using catchalls, set the catchall account to auto-forward e-mails from its account settings.
For those wishing to forward all mail for your domain, just setup an account on GAFYD (e.g. admin), go into settings and configure that admin account as a catch-all. Next, go into that admin's Gmail and set the forwarding there.
An added bonus is that I will have copies of all my mail in my Gmail for backup.
Thanks again.