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manticore's avatar

free catch all forwarding service

Hi Guys,

I've got a quick question, I'm in the process of moving a few sites I run over to a digital ocean / forge setup and need a way of making a catch all mail account for a few domains somewhere just to forward everything to one central email account. So i guess the service would need to be able to have mx records point towards it and then setup a catch all forwarder.

Does anybody know of such a service that is free to use or a cheap monthly cost?

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Kryptonit3's avatar
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mailgun has a free service level (first 10,000 emails a month) and you can add a filter to forward all emails to a domain to a specific email.

So if they do not match an existing route, they go to the catch all.

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Sven2157's avatar

@manticore

While @Kryptonit3 has a good idea, there is really no need for all that switching.

The MX records are directly linked to the IP Address of the hosting domain. Just setup the email accounts on the new server, then point the domain to the new server( edit the @ record ). When the propagation of the domain name completes, it will switch automatically.

Then you can go back to the old hosting, and ZIP the email folders, and extract on the new server.

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divanoli's avatar

@ Sven2157 I think he said he is moving to forge/digital ocean. It will be nginx/php and there will be no mail server.

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