# Configuring both direct delivery email and a forwarding rule **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Support\ **Tags:** email\ **Created:** [November 22, 2020, 5:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configuring-both-direct-delivery-email-and-a-forwarding-rule/170959 "2020-11-22T17:56:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2020, 6:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configuring-both-direct-delivery-email-and-a-forwarding-rule/170959/2 "2020-11-22T18:00:47Z")
> [@Ryan\_N](#): > > I followed your steps and **everything is working**! Hooray! > [@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 you’d be using `xxx@www.example.com` as your mail domain and not have an issue with receiving mail at `example.com`. So then you would configure incoming group/category posts as `whatever@forum.example.com`. (And it’s really best to not run your web site on the naked/apex domain: [Ojktoto \> Ada Togel Online Terbaik Di Situs Toto Terpercaya](https://www.yes-www.org/why-use-www/)) --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configuring-both-direct-delivery-email-and-a-forwarding-rule/170959)._