Is it supported to have a wildcard alias to forward to another domain?

[drewid]

Is it supported to have a wildcard where email aliases for one domain forward to the same on another domain?

Example:

• I have aliases setup at testdomain.com
• Can it be set up so that a general wildcard for testdomain.net (*@testdomain.net etc.) goes to the matching address at @testdomain.com?
• I'd want joe@testdomain.net to go to joe@testdomain.com but setup to just a wildcard type matching, not individual forwarding.

I've seen it with some other mail providers in the past but checking as it would be a huge convenience:

Basically %@testdomain.net with a recipient of %@testdomain.com or something similar syntactically.

[shaunwarman]

Sure, you can do this for free via a DNS TXT record of forward-email=joe@testdomain.com added to your testdomain.net DNS settings. And you'll want to set your testdomain.net DNS MX records mx1.forwardemail.net / mx2.forwardemail.net.

Or if you sign up for the enhanced plan, you get a catch-all / wildcard added by default. So the onboarding flow would have you add testdomain.net, walk you through DNS setup and verification and then you can use the web UI to manage your forwarding rules.

More information here: https://forwardemail.net/en/faq#how-do-i-get-started-and-set-up-email-forwarding

[drewid]

Thanks @shaunwarman. I have a paid plan for enhanced seutp, but key question is how to setup the actual forwarding rule? Any email that comes into testdomain.net I want to go to the matching email at testdomain.com without manually setting up email alias.

• joe@testdomain.net => joe@testdomain.com
• susy@testdomain.net => suzy@testdomain.com
• It's easy to do a catchall for @testdomain.com and send it to a single address, just not sure how to send to matching email. Thanks

[titanism]

Create a catch-all with * as the name and for the forwarding recipient put the domain name testdomain.com

[drewid]

Many thanks @titanism - that is the correct answer I am looking for.

I don't believe that is spelled out clearly in the docs and if not, should definitely be added as that is a very helpful feature!

[drewid]

Thanks @shaunwarman. For clarity, marking this as the answer, as for this example, per @titanism create a catch-all with * as the alias and for the forwarding recipient just put the domain name testdomain.com as the recipient