Forwarding domain emails without a mailbox
I have a few domain names on GoDaddy and they charge to have a mailbox, although I don't need the mailbox, I just need to forward the email to an existing gmail or outlook account. Here's a mockup of what I'm trying to do.
I have full control of the DNS on all domains and I am able to add MX records, but how can I tell gmail or outlook that they should be receiving emails from these specific emails?
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The only thing I have found thus far is a 3rd party service called ImprovMX that supplies the needed MX and TXT records and then forwards them to the email of your choice. I just don't like the idea of having another intermediate service in charge of handling this when I could have it in either outlook, gmail, or GoDaddy
Oof, GoDaddy... Personally, I use Cloudflare for both domain registration and email forwarding
I agree, but these domains are already on that platform. I would have picked just about anything else
So would I not be able to forward unless the domain name provider allows for it?
Ah, no, you can still use CF's email forwarding even if your domain is somewhere else
You'd just point your domain at Cloudflare's nameservers
basically, instead of
you would set up
I gotcha and that does make sense
And then, CF can manage your MX records, email redirection, SSL certificates, whatever
Thanks for the replies. It definitely helped me understand what's going on here
CF email routing is super powerful too, if you ever need to redirect the email somewhere else depending on the sender, contents of the title, attachments, etc. you can write a rule that does that
That’s pretty neat. I’ve used CF for other things like DNS and edge caching, but never knew that was a thing. Thanks again