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Is there an option to forward all of my mail to my gmail (preferably deleting the copy on pawnmail too)? This is an interesting idea. I was going to set up an

by Slix 12y ago

Is there an option to forward all of my mail to my gmail (preferably deleting the copy on pawnmail too)? This is an interesting idea. I was going to set up an email server on my VPS with just SMTP that auto-forwarded everything to my gmail. But this might be simpler.

vortico 12y ago
Not yet, but this is a planned feature for the near future, along with a more detailed account management interface. For the time being, you may take advantage of Gmail's POP3/IMAP support to download emails hosted on Pawnmail from Gmail. (See Google's article https://support.google.com/mail/answer/21289?hl=en https://support.google.com/mail/answer/21289?hl=en) The emailed is pulled from Pawnmail rather than pushed, but it achieves the same effect.
stormbrew 12y ago
> I was going to set up an email server on my VPS with just SMTP that auto-forwarded everything to my gmail. But this might be simpler. Do NOT do this. Unless you're willing to make absolutely sure that no spam gets through to gmail, you will be blacklisted by gmail when it flags spam coming from your host. And not even a lot of it. Basically, to use gmail this way you have to be almost as good as gmail at the thing that most makes gmail worthwhile. It's not worth it. Much easier to go the other way.
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- andrewaylett 12y ago
  TTBOMK, Google have tooling to help with this -- they're aware that people forward them mail, and if you don't rewrite the mail on the way through (and especially if you've registered the forwarded address in gmail) they say they'll do the right thing. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/175365?hl=en https://support.google.com/mail/answer/175365?hl=en
tedchs 12y ago
If you register your domain with Google Domains (their new registrar service), you get email forwarding for free.
- EpicDavi 12y ago
  If only he/I could get an invite :(

by Slix 12y ago

vortico 12y ago

Not yet, but this is a planned feature for the near future, along with a more detailed account management interface. For the time being, you may take advantage of Gmail's POP3/IMAP support to download emails hosted on Pawnmail from Gmail. (See Google's article https://support.google.com/mail/answer/21289?hl=en https://support.google.com/mail/answer/21289?hl=en) The emailed is pulled from Pawnmail rather than pushed, but it achieves the same effect.

stormbrew 12y ago

> I was going to set up an email server on my VPS with just SMTP that auto-forwarded everything to my gmail. But this might be simpler. Do NOT do this. Unless you're willing to make absolutely sure that no spam gets through to gmail, you will be blacklisted by gmail when it flags spam coming from your host. And not even a lot of it. Basically, to use gmail this way you have to be almost as good as gmail at the thing that most makes gmail worthwhile. It's not worth it. Much easier to go the other way.

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andrewaylett 12y ago
TTBOMK, Google have tooling to help with this -- they're aware that people forward them mail, and if you don't rewrite the mail on the way through (and especially if you've registered the forwarded address in gmail) they say they'll do the right thing. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/175365?hl=en https://support.google.com/mail/answer/175365?hl=en

tedchs 12y ago

If you register your domain with Google Domains (their new registrar service), you get email forwarding for free.

EpicDavi 12y ago
If only he/I could get an invite :(