Domain names and e-mail

Say, I currently have the domain names www.example.com and
www.example.org registered. I only recently registered www.example.org.

www.example.org merely redirects traffic to www.example.com.

What is the status of e-mail sent to me at www.example.org. For
instance, I currently receive e-mail at me@example.com. What happens if
someone accidentally sends me an e-mail at me@example.org? Is there any
easy way I can receive mail at both addresses (me@example.com, and
me@example.org)?
What would be the best/easiest/most inexpensive way to receive e-mail
at both addresses. Is there an easy way to 'forward' e-mails or
something like that?

Thanks in advance. Any input would be appreciated.

Re: Domain names and e-mail

In article <1120454323.679964.200810@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"Buddy" wrote:

> Say, I currently have the domain names www.example.com and
> www.example.org registered. I only recently registered www.example.org.
>
> www.example.org merely redirects traffic to www.example.com.
>
> What is the status of e-mail sent to me at www.example.org. For
> instance, I currently receive e-mail at me@example.com. What happens if
> someone accidentally sends me an e-mail at me@example.org? Is there any
> easy way I can receive mail at both addresses (me@example.com, and
> me@example.org)?
> What would be the best/easiest/most inexpensive way to receive e-mail
> at both addresses. Is there an easy way to 'forward' e-mails or
> something like that?
>
> Thanks in advance. Any input would be appreciated.
>

You could have ALL e-mail sent to example.org forwarded to a certain
address at example.com pretty cheaply, I would imagine -- check the
company that forwards the web traffic for example.org (but note that you
can use different companies for dealing with web and e-mail for the same
domain).

To have a one-to-one mapping (i.e. me@example.org and you@example.org both forward to the corresponding addresses @example.com) might be a
little more involved, but again, check with the company that hosts
example.org first.

-Andrew

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Re: Domain names and e-mail

>Say, I currently have the domain names www.example.com and
>www.example.org registered. I only recently registered www.example.org.
>
>www.example.org merely redirects traffic to www.example.com.
>
>What is the status of e-mail sent to me at www.example.org. For
>instance, I currently receive e-mail at me@example.com. What happens if
>someone accidentally sends me an e-mail at me@example.org? Is there any
>easy way I can receive mail at both addresses (me@example.com, and
>me@example.org)?
>What would be the best/easiest/most inexpensive way to receive e-mail
>at both addresses. Is there an easy way to 'forward' e-mails or
>something like that?
>
>Thanks in advance. Any input would be appreciated.

This heavily depends on how you are currently operating the domains.
In general, the so called DNS MX entry defines which servers! handle
mail for a given domain. So it's no problem to create two MX entries
for the two domains pointing to the same host. From there on it
depends on said hosts configuration.

To deal with this situation you have two options

a) have your ISP deal with all this

b) run your own mailserver



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HTH

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