My Next Thing to Learn: Email Hosting

Reid Cooper

If you are looking to learn about email hosting, I'm with SAM... Zimbra has been the big open source email player for a long time. Free and very useful.

What about this? Any downsides?

http://linuxaria.com/pills/how-to-setup-postfix-to-forward-email-to-another-email-account-on-debianubuntu?lang=en

IRJ

@Aaron-Studer said:

@technobabble Agreed, but I am not paying for that just for my personal domain, not cost effective.

Check out Zoho. It's completely free and you can use your domain name for email

Dashrender

@Aaron-Studer said:

@technobabble Agreed, but I am not paying for that just for my personal domain, not cost effective.

I completely understand this, I see few solutions for this, Gmail or (much less desirable) use the email your ISP provides...

All that said, I do understand learning for learning sake.

IRJ

@coliver said:

Zoho has free mail for personal and business domains. I think up-to 5 or 10 accounts. That is what I'm using for my personal domains. They also have a really nice web interface which makes it even better.

That's what I get for not reading

IRJ

@thecreativeone91 said:

@coliver said:

Zoho has free mail for personal and business domains. I think up-to 5 or 10 accounts. That is what I'm using for my personal domains. They also have a really nice web interface which makes it even better.

I used to use it, It has some funky issues with folder syncing in the web interface vs imap or activesnyc. it doesn't always match.

I have never had an issue with Zoho

doyle.jack

@Aaron-Studer said:

So then let me pose a new question, how do I setup email forwarding so that any email sent to *@domain.com is forwarded to my gmail?

You could probably go with Postfix.

This is an older article, but is it what you are trying to do? http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-bsd-postfix-forward-email-to-another-account/

scottalanmiller

@doyle.jack said:

@Aaron-Studer said:

So then let me pose a new question, how do I setup email forwarding so that any email sent to *@domain.com is forwarded to my gmail?

You could probably go with Postfix.

I agree, for a pure SMTP Relay, Postfix is the best option. A Dev 1 will handle that just fine.

StrongBad

Doesn't GMail just let you have domain aliases?

@StrongBad said:

Doesn't GMail just let you have domain aliases?

Only if you pay for Google Apps. They used to have a free tier along with Outlook/Hotmail. But the only free custom domain one now (that I know of) is Zoho.