Does mail forwarding require domain registered with hostgator

[pekingu]

I ask myself if you need to have your domain registered at hostgator to use mail forwarding.

And whatever the answer it is, that would only let you to receive mail sent to a yourdomain@yourdomain.com address in your real mail (yourdomain@gmail.com). But what do you need if you want to use that mail address (yourdomain@yourdomain.com) to send (not just to receive) messages.

I suppose that my questions are newbye ones but i dont know much about this topics.

[slapshotw]

As long as nameservers (or the MX record) are pointed to hostgator, you can do it.

And to reply from it, you'll want to make a full mailbox and reply using that, instead of a forwarder.

I'm not 100% sure if I understand what you're asking, but if you want to be able to send mail through hostgator mail servers, yes - the domain you're sending with needs to be on the hostgator server. If not, the gateways will reject it on the way out. You don't have to buy the domain here, you just have to have DNS setup so that the domain actually "exists" here. If you bought it somewhere else, that involves modifying your WHOIS record to use HostGator DNS servers and/or pointing the IP address for the domain/mail here.

[Birmingham]

Originally Posted by slapshotw

As long as nameservers (or the MX record) are pointed to hostgator, you can do it.

how?





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[Taubin]

If you go to MX entries in your Cpane (cpanel.domainname.com) you can edit them there. For example, google apps MX would be ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM

[Birmingham]

How do I forward my email to my hotmail account?

[striddy]

Originally Posted by Birmingham

How do I forward my email to my hotmail account?

cpanel > email > forward

[GvilleRick]

You can set up forwarders in your cPanel under the mail options.

[Birmingham]

close enough. i actually found it at cpanel > mail > forwarders