Forwarding domains to Gmail

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essayer

Original Poster:

10,038 posts

206 months

Friday 29th November 2024
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I have 5 domains I want to forward to one Gmail account, and another that goes to a different Gmail.

For many years I have hosted a server with qmail etc but the prices are going up and I cba with managing it*

I just want to continue seeing the emails in Gmail and replying via the same domain using Gmails "Send mail as" feature.

How do I do that nowadays with minimal spendies?



* lol I don't manage it at all, it's still Centos 6

essayer

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10,038 posts

206 months

Thursday 19th December 2024
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..any ideas..?

davek_964

9,913 posts

187 months

Thursday 19th December 2024
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Where are the domains hosted?

Most allow email forwarding don't they? My domains were on Google, now Squarespace and both allow email forwarding

essayer

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10,038 posts

206 months

Thursday 19th December 2024
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on the virtual server itself. a mix of 123reg and others for the DNS.

OutInTheShed

10,619 posts

38 months

Thursday 19th December 2024
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Can you not access the mailboxes in something like Thunderbird and set up a forwarding 'rule'?

essayer

Original Poster:

10,038 posts

206 months

Thursday 19th December 2024
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I’m happy to keep using gmail but basically what I want is

  • @mydomain1.com -> gmail account 1
  • @mydomain2.com -> gmail account 1
  • @myworkdomain1.com -> gmail account 2
  • @myworkdomain2.com -> gmail account 2
I don’t have any packages or hosting set up for the domains currently, they just dns forward to a Linux server which handles emails

Need to send/reply for all domains + the gmail address itself

OutInTheShed

10,619 posts

38 months

Thursday 19th December 2024
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I'm currently doing that with Thunderbird, except that I generally send replies from shed@gmail.com.
Because I'm trying to lose my legacy domains.
Most of the forwarded email is dross that I just delete.
One or two a day are worth logging into the old domains and sending a reply which the other party will see as coming from the old domain.

At one point we had a handful of different RasPi's each with T'bird on it, handling different email addresses in different ways, as we disentangled from the business.

You can only try so hard to encourage people to stop sending to your old domain.
Yesterday I got a 'Christmas Message' from someone I've not seen this century, to an email address I've not paid for for 25 years.