Email forwarding

[indolering]

I've had to signup for a lot of services and I would prefer to use a namecoin.org email (so they are recoverable if I'm hit by a bus) but I don't want to setup email boxes for everyone, etc.

At first I thought about forwarding to emails included after a +, thus info+zachlym.indolering.com@namecoin.org would mark the email as read and forward it to zachlym@indolering.com but that would leave us open to anyone forwarding email through the system.

Ideas?

Also, do we have control of dot-bit.org emails? I could recover some social media account logins if someone would let me do some spelunking

[JeremyRand]

Doesn't the DNS provider provide some forwarder mailboxes we could use? Namecheap is providing my personal e-mail forwarder.

[indolering]

I guess a shared webmail account would be better than nothing.

[phelixbtc]

Only Khal has access to dot-bit.org eMails and he seems to be MIA again.

Being able to forward eMails to several people would certainly be nice.

[indolering]

Being able to forward eMails to several people would certainly be nice.

Yeah, we could do a shared email account with manual forwarding for specific +name addresses.

[JeremyRand]

Surely our DNS provider has something like this, right? At least in the case of namecoin.org aliases for our personal addresses, that's pretty standard I think.

@ryancdotorg can you comment on this?

[ryancdotorg]

The mail is via OVH and I think @domob1812 can set up forwards.

[domob1812]

Yes, currently we use OVH's servers for MX. I can (manually) set up forwards if someone wants to have one. Since I've recently installed postfix on my (personal) VPS, I could also point namecoin.org's MX records there and set up forwards on that machine. For anything more complicated, I'd ask someone else who knows more about it to set up a mail server on the new Namecoin server or something. Ryan can control the MX records in EasyDNS.

[indolering]

@domob1812 that sounds like a PITA, are you sure there isn't a simpler way to do this?

[domob1812]

@indolering As I said, I can "simply" create redirects in OVH's interface - this seems about the simplest you could get, and I'll do it if you have an @namecoin.org address you would like to have. Your "automatic redirect" thing sounds more complicated by itself, so I'm not sure why you mean that it should be "simpler".

[indolering]

As I said, I can "simply" create redirects in OVH's interface - this seems about the simplest you could get, and I'll do it if you have an @namecoin.org address you would like to have. Your "automatic redirect" thing sounds more complicated by itself, so I'm not sure why you mean that it should be "simpler".

Okay, I just wanted to minimize your effort.

If you could setup indolering@namecoin.org that points to zachlym@indolering.com, I would be very grateful.

@JeremyRand do you want an email as well?

[JeremyRand]

@domob1812 I would like to have jeremy@namecoin.org redirect to jeremy@veclabs.net if it's not too much trouble. Thanks!

[domob1812]

@JeremyRand: Done. But I think also @ryancdotorg needs to set some TXT record in EasyDNS. OVH seems to have a complicated system for email redirects.... But it worked in the end with indolering.

[indolering]

I tested this, no joy. I'm pretty sure I have to bug @ryancdotorg.

[ryancdotorg]

i added the dns records a few hours ago, is this working now?

[JeremyRand]

As of midnight central time it's still not working. I'll try again in 24 hours.

[ryancdotorg]

any luck? the text record is there

[indolering]

@ryancdotorg I've been sending emails to indolering@namecoin.org but I never receive it nor get a bounce notification. It might be a problem with my email setup but I'm not sure how to troubleshoot it.

[JeremyRand]

I haven't had any luck either; I just sent another test e-mail a few minutes ago, we'll see if it shows up but I'm not expecting it to.

[ryancdotorg]

Maybe the text records have to be added first? I checked again, they are there.

[domob1812]

I also just checked, and the redirects seem to be fine at OVH, too: indolering@namecoin.org to zachlym@indolering.com and jeremy@namecoin.org to jeremy@veclabs.net.

If we can't get this to work, I offer again to set up the redirects on my own VPS. This should only be some lines in a config file I already have there (for virtual mailboxes).

[ryancdotorg]

Maybe if you delete and re-add them?

[domob1812]

Ok, I've recreated them now in the OVH interface. Maybe this helps, let's see. :)

[indolering]

Maybe try indolering@gmail.com, I've been having trouble receiving email at zachlym@indolering.com from random people recently.

[JeremyRand]

I'm still not having any luck. Sending e-mails to jeremy@namecoin.org still doesn't go through, and I don't even get a bounce notification.

[domob1812]

Should we try using my server for this? Let me know if I should set up the redirects there. The MX record is mail.domob.eu.

[indolering]

@domob1812 that might be best.

[domob1812]

I've set up the redirects at my server - @ryancdotorg, please try setting the MX record to mail.domob.eu.

[JeremyRand]

@ryancdotorg Has the MX record been set as @domob1812 suggested?

[JeremyRand]

@ryancdotorg , any update on this?

[indolering]

Still not working. Can I at least get an email for that domain that is working? I need to report Sudo's Facebook and Twitter pages and I need an email address belonging to Namecoin.