Online Support: Domain Email Routing

Once you own a domain name, you can use it for your emails. Your email address can be: anything@yourcompany.com. Such address is easy to remember and its yours to keep forever. You can change from one ISP to another and still use the same email address!

First in your email software, you will need to set the return address or from address as: yourname@yourcompany.com. So when you send someone an email, it will appear as from: yourname@yourcompany.com, such as joe@GreatInc.com. You can set your return address to be anything you like, such as bill@clinton.org. However, if you don't own the domain name, return emails won't be delivered to you.

Second, you will need to setup your domain name routing table to make sure all emails addressed to: yourname@yourcompany.com  will be delivered to your mailbox.

To setup your domain email routing, you will need to go to our domain email   server at: http://mail.bestnet.net. You can change your email routing table 24 hours a day. There is no limit on how many changes you can make. There is no per user or mailbox charges. There is no updating fees.

When you construct an email forwarding table. Please use one of the following examples. We use domain name: GreatInc.com as an example.

  • Situation I: only one forward-to address
      Email forwarding table:
    
             GreatInc.com       GreatInc@aol.com
    
            

    The above email forwarding table means all emails addressed to GreatInc.com (i.e. anything@GreatInc.com) will be forwarded to: GreatInc@aol.com.

  • Situation II: multiple forward-to addresses, accept emails at any user name.
      Email forwarding table:
    
             sales@GreatInc.com    12536.234@compuserve.com
             order@GreatInc.com    joe253@ix.netcom.com
             judy@GreatInc.com     PHHD87A@prodigy.com    
             GreatInc.com          GreatInc@aol.com
    
            

    The above email forwarding table means:
    emails addressed to: sales@GreatInc.com will be forwarded to: 12536.234@compuserve.com
    emails addressed to: order@GreatInc.com will be forwarded to: joe253@ix.netcom.com
    emails addressed to: judy@GreatInc.com will be forwarded to: PHHD87A@prodigy.com
    all other emails for GreatInc.com (i.e. AnythingElse@GreatInc.com) will be forwarded to: GreatInc@aol.com.

    There is no limit on how many forwarding lines you can have.

  • Situation III: multiple forward-to addresses, accept emails for only listed users.
      Email forwarding table:
    
             sales@GreatInc.com    12536.234@compuserve.com
             order@GreatInc.com    joe253@ix.netcom.com
             judy@GreatInc.com     PHHD87A@prodigy.com    
    
            

    The above email forwarding table means:
    emails addressed to: sales@GreatInc.com will be forwarded to: 12536.234@compuserve.com
    emails addressed to: order@GreatInc.com will be forwarded to: joe253@ix.netcom.com
    emails addressed to: judy@GreatInc.com will be forwarded to: PHHD87A@prodigy.com
    all other emails for GreatInc.com (i.e. AnythingElse@GreatInc.com) will be returned with: User Unknown.

    As a custom, you should always have user: postmaster@GreatInc.com.


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