E-mail Forwarded From Another Domain

[Craig Be Rio 1]

Hi Everyone,

 

I have a domain hosted here at TCH and recently acquired another domain through a non-TCH name server. Let's call the domains my-tch.com and other.com. The other.com domain is parked. I've configured other.com to forward HTTP requests to my-tch.com, and I also want other.com e-mail forwarded to my-tch.com. I'm not sure how to get the e-mail forwarding working.

 

My understanding of what needs to happen:

1. Add an MX record to the name server referring other.com to my-tch.com
   
2. Somehow configure my-tch.com to accept e-mail addressed to someone@other.com
   

Is this correct?

 

I know how to configure the MX record, but not how to accept e-mail addressed to @other.com: C-panel forces the domain name to @my-tch.com. Also, the non-TCH name server does not do e-mail forwarding.

 

Thanks!

Craig.

[TCH-Bruce]

Welcome to the forums Craig

 

It would be simpler to just change the name servers to your new domain to the same ones you are using for your TCH domain and open a ticket with the help desk and ask them to park your new domain on top of your existing domain.

[Craig Be Rio 1]

Thanks, Bruce!

 

Hmm. I think I understand what you are saying. Now I also understand that I did not describe accurately enough my situation. I'll try again:

 

My web site and e-mail server are here at TCH.

The name servers for my-tch.com and other.com are both at the non-TCH name server (both at the same place).

 

Craig.

[TCH-Andy]

Welcome to the forums Craig

 

If you want the web pages for both to be the same, then point both to the same IP address, and you can set the emails etc in cpanel as Bruce says.

[TCH-Thomas]

Welcome to the forum, Craig.

[TCH-Don]

Welcome to the forum, Craig

It does not matter where you registered your domain names

you can point the second domain to the same name servers as your in your welcome email from TCH

then ask the techs to park it on your account.

Then in your cpanel you will see both domains in email setup and so forth.

And then if you want you can set up forwards in cpanel for the other domain to go where ever

or as a seperate email account.

[abinidi]

I've done exactly what you describe. I have two domain names that I purchased from GoDaddy. I point both of them at the same nameservers (provided in your TCH welcome e-mail), then I chose one to be the "main" domain and one to be the "parked" domain (if you have an account already at TCH, which you do, then it makes the most sense to have your existing domain be the "main" domain and the new one be the "parked" domain).

 

Once the nameservers are resolving properly to TCH (usually about 24-48 hours) THEN you can post a ticket to the help desk, asking them to park the domain on your account. They can't help you until the nameservers are resolving to TCH.

 

This works really well. When you ask the TCH techs to park the domain (after it is resolving) they can set it up in a matter of minutes.

 

Good luck!