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Re: Email Forwarding for Your Domain

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Is this necessary? Gmail and Namecheap do this for free. I recently set up a domain and was able to set up Gmail and Mail.app to both send and receive as that email. I also use Fastmail and set that up with a domain no problem. Maybe I’m missing what this is for.

The Namecheap email forwarding service quietly drops all email it thinks is spam. And their spam filter is too aggressive. There is no way to know that an email was dropped. I missed a lot if emails until I figured this out.

Ugh. Thank you for mentioning this. I've actually forgotten about their spam filter dropping emails rather than letting downstream providers handle it.

Re: Email Forwarding for Your Domain

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The problem I've always had when forwarding addresses, at least to my Gmail, is that Gmail seems to credit all forwarded spam to the forwarding address, so if your forwarded email gets a lot of spam, it quickly starts sending a large percentage of even the legitimate forwarded email to spam. Is there a solution to that issue?

Instead I've taken to using the pop download option, but that has its own issues (mostly the long delay between downloads).

Re: Email Forwarding for Your Domain

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It seems similar to Gmailify https://www.gmailify.com/ I am happy customer of theirs, I think they are doing everything I would ever wanted, but good to know you are here as well...

When I've used another forwarding service in the past, things were weird with calendar and drive. I don't think drive is fixable but I'm curious if you have a working setup for calendar?

Re: Email Forwarding for Your Domain

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Is this necessary? Gmail and Namecheap do this for free. I recently set up a domain and was able to set up Gmail and Mail.app to both send and receive as that email. I also use Fastmail and set that up with a domain no problem. Maybe I’m missing what this is for.

If you want a custom domain with Gmail, you need to use Google workspace which costs like $8 a month or something like that. Seems like a necessary service to me. I'm interested at least and I have a custom domain hosted with Google workspace.

I'm in the same boat, custom domain, but I'd like to get away from a US-hosted mail service if possible. Problem is, gDocs is pretty good for the price. I wish Proton had more workspace products like that.

Re: Email Forwarding for Your Domain

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FWIW, I use forwardemail.net. Been using them a few years and haven't had any issues. They've got a free plan but you have to put your email in the public DNS record, or $3/mo to keep your email private. https://forwardemail.net/en/private-business-email?pricing=t... Not affiliated, just a happy customer. The biggest issue now is that my email addresses always confuse humans. They're always like "Your email address i…

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Re: Email Forwarding for Your Domain

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post #5

Is this necessary? Gmail and Namecheap do this for free. I recently set up a domain and was able to set up Gmail and Mail.app to both send and receive as that email. I also use Fastmail and set that up with a domain no problem. Maybe I’m missing what this is for.

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