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Email Forwarding to Gmail
24-01-2009 9:26 AM
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Basically this is what I want to do:
I have moved my domain name to plusnet servers and I was told that it is possible to redirect my email to
name@mydomain.net to name@gmail.com
I am not looking to use a plus.net mail account.
If any one send me to name@mydomain.net then it goes to my plus.net email account.
If any friend who has a gmail account send me an email to name@mydomain.net it arrives in my gmail account.
Can anyone help?
I am not expert on dns settings and I had no problem with receiving email when my domain name was hosted with the company where I registered it.
If this is not possible, just be honest, although I know it is possible as it was the case before.
It seems that my questions are not being dealt with the right people. I have been told it is working, no emails, then I ask about the dns settings, then I am told it is not set up correctly. During this time no email.
Please can someone resolve my issue and call me to confirm or discuss either way a response will be apprecaited.
Re: Email Forwarding to Gmail
24-01-2009 11:30 AM
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If so then it should be relatively straight forward.
Lets say you have a Mailbox called 'name'. Any emails sent to name@mydomain.net and name@username.plus.com will be sent to this one mailbox. All you have to do is set up a redirect for this mailbox to name@gmail.com. (Email Settings > Manage My Mail > Redirects > Add New Redirect).
I don't think it is possible to retain the email in your Plusnet Mailbox when using a redirect.
Given you have been speaking to Technical Support for a week I assume that the above has already been tried. But then you never know.
Re: Email Forwarding to Gmail
24-01-2009 11:45 AM
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I trust you have created a redirect(s) for the mailbox name you want to forward to gmail and not been trying to point the MX records to Google.
The redirect you have created will forward mail for both name@mydomain.net and name@username.plus.com. Have you tried sending a test mail to name@username.plus.com? If that works the problem is with your domain, if it doesn't the problem is with the way you've set the redirect up.
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Re: Email Forwarding to Gmail
24-01-2009 4:41 PM
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I have set-up redirects for the 2 other accounts, name2 and name 3 that point to other name2@gmail.com and name3@gmail.com and they work OK
It is just the name@mydomain.net that does not work. It arrives in my plus.net mailbox not my gmail account at name@gmail.com. Unless it is sent by another gmail user. Also if I send from my work email(on another domain) to name@mydomain.net it arrives at name@gmail.com.
On my dns settings are:
Left field Type Pri Right field
mx 20 mx.last.plus.net.
www cname ccgi.plus.net.
It is really frustrating.
Any more suggestions?
Re: Email Forwarding to Gmail
24-01-2009 7:34 PM
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Firstly, have you opted out of all Plusnet spam protection? (I'm guessing you may have done on the basis that when the email is forwarded to Google mail, they will filter off the spam). I picked this up by looking at your DNS mail records:
C:\Documents and Settings\John>nslookup -type=mx mydomain.net 212.159.6.9
Server: ptn-cdns01.plus.net
Address: 212.159.6.9
Non-authoritative answer:
mydomain.net MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = mx.core.plus.net
mydomain.net MX preference = 20, mail exchanger = mx.last.plus.net
mydomain.net nameserver = ns1.force9.net
mydomain.net nameserver = ns2.force9.net
mx.core.plus.net internet address = 212.159.9.1
mx.core.plus.net internet address = 212.159.8.1
mx.last.plus.net internet address = 212.159.8.1
mx.last.plus.net internet address = 212.159.9.1
ns1.force9.net internet address = 195.166.128.16
ns2.force9.net internet address = 195.166.128.17
You may want to consider using Spam Filtering on, Edge Protection off, Don't add [-SPAM-] to the subject line, Move to Inbox, Aggressiveness 1, Anti Virus Filtering Off. This would get rid of the absolutely blatant spam - in case Google got shirty with you forwarding them loads of spam.
Looking in the headers I can't see an obvious reason, but I can see a possibility worthy of you investigating further by looking at more examples. If you look at the header where the Plusnet mail server receives the email:
Received: from [IP address] (helo=sending server name)
by fhw-sunmxcore07.plus.net with esmtp (PlusNet MXCore v2.00) id 1LQgeH-0007HO-0R
for name@mydomain.net; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:26:01 +0000
you will see that they went through different Plusnet mail servers. I suggest you look to see if there is any pattern to which servers forward the mails correctly and those that don't.
Have you tried deleting the redirect and then creating it again, that has cured problems in the past where the mail servers have got out of sync (I think there's 18 of them).
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Re: Email Forwarding to Gmail
28-01-2009 1:28 PM
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Quote from: jelv Have you tried deleting the redirect and then creating it again, that has cured problems in the past where the mail servers have got out of sync (I think there's 18 of them).
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Although that's not strictly the case any more due to this work that's currently underway.
Bob Pullen
Plusnet Product Team
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Re: Email Forwarding to Gmail
28-01-2009 8:26 PM
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Re: Email Forwarding to Gmail
29-01-2009 5:25 PM
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You don't have to do anything with Plusnet setup, you can do it all in Gmail setup. Go to Settings, Accounts. See Send mail as and Get mail from other accounts.
You will then collect all your Plusnet email and also be able to send Plusnet email using Gmail.
Re: Email Forwarding to Gmail
29-01-2009 10:52 PM
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29-01-2009 10:54 PM
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somedomain.net again!
[me=jelv]thinks that's something Bob needs to investigate.[/me]
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