Continuing the discussion from Straightforward direct-delivery incoming mail : I followed your steps and everything is working! I see bounces in the Rejected bin and have tested direct replies email. Way cool! I do however see a problem especially for non-Linux newbies setting up a forum for the …

[image] Ryan_N: I followed your steps and everything is working ! Hooray! [image] Ryan_N: Goal: point my to-be-created admin@example.org to a to-be-created Gmail inbox. What is generally recommended is that your forum run on a subdomain (e.g., www.example.com, forum.example.com). Then…

@pfaffman Wowza! So you’re saying I can have my cake and eat it too :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: ! This sounds very encouraging, as I might be set up close to correct already… My outbound email subdomain is simply mg and works fine, i.e. postmaster@**mg**.example.com (less the stars) on port …

Some interesting findings after moving all DNS settings back to the registrar for the sole intent of activating their email-forwarding feature . This is a head-scratcher: @Jonathan5 I did remove that standalone MX record to see what would happen. The answer is confusing: though everything still wor…

@Jonathan5 Regret to inform my good-luck run has since changed–without me actually doing anything at all. Must have been propagation delays in the interwebs :thinking:. My previous comment was about 10-15 mins after testing the deletion of the MX record. It has now been 90 minutes and the followin…

[image] Configure direct-delivery incoming email for self-hosted sites with Mail-Receiver If your forum is at forum.example.com , and you set MAIL_DOMAIN to forum.example.com in the mail-receiver.yml , then the DNS record should look like this: DNS Name: forum.example.com (this is the MAIL_DOMA…

[image] Jonathan5: Sorry if I had a hand in messing it up for you. None in the least! I’m sort of, ehem, “hacking” my way through this—learning as I go. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Configuring both direct delivery email and a forwarding rule

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RichardC April 15, 2021, 5:36pm 10

@Ryan_N I was able to do forwarding and MX record with Namecheap as described here

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