Gandi Wiki


Questions

Forwarding address with Gandi Mail

Note:

This page implies that your domain is set up to use Gandi Mail. Please refer to step 1 here to be sure that you are correctly using our mail servers for your domain.

There are three different types of email forwarding that you can set up at Gandi:

  • Forwarding
  • Alias
  • Like Alias

I will discuss these in turn.

Setting up a forwarding address

Note:

These are used when you want mail that is sent to something@yourdomain.com to something@yourusualemail.com. You can set up as many forwarding addresses as you want, though it is not possible to set-up a catch-all address.

Log into the domain in question (we'll call it yourdomain.com for this guide).

Then, in the domain's control panel look here:

…and click on "Manage". This will bring up the email management page.

Click on the button that says "Create". You will then see the form that is used to create an email address.

The same form is used to create a forwarding address. At the top you will see two options:

Choose "Forwarding" to create a forwarding address. The form will then change to become more simple, and you will see this:

Where it says "E-mail account" (and may be pre-filled with your handle), put the name that you want in the box. This is the part that comes before the @ in your email address.

Where it says Forwarding addresses, put the target email address. This is where you'll put your yahoo, gmail, aol, or whoever your usual email provider happens to be.

In the example below, all mails sent to info@jouetcaprice.com will be forwarded to hatcanoe@hotmail.com

You can forward mails to more than one address, just add them to your list.

Creating an Alias

Note:

This is basically a forwarding address, but when something@yourdomain.com is forwarded to somethingelse@yourdomain.com.

You will do just like the above, the only difference is in the technical definition (it is technically an alias, not a forward).

Creating a like Alias

This option is available once you have purchased the Mail Pack.

In creating a dynamic, or "like" alias, you have the option to select from three pattern-matching choices when creating an email address: * Starting with * Contains * Ending With

Input a character string and select a pattern match choice, then click "Add"

Questions

RSS feed for questions matching this filter (Help)

Last modified: 09 Mar 2012 at 20:50 by Thomas S. (Gandi)