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.