Moving from WebFaction
Hello,
I'm planning to move away from WebFaction but it's hard to have a server with the same ease of use they provide.
For the web hosting part I know how to set up Nginx, PHP, MYSQL.
But I have some questions about the email part. They allow to easily forward emails from domain name to personal email adresse (@hotmail, @gmail, @outlook). How can I do the same on Linode or using another service ?
Thanks for your help.
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Any decent mail server running on your Linode will do this for you.
I recommend Postfix (just because it’s what I’m familiar with; the configuration always seems easier than Sendmail.)
You’re looking for mail forwarding (accept mail to user@example.com and forward to user-example@outlook.com), yes?
Here’s a good article to set it up on Postfix.
Your “virtual_alias_domains” are the domains you are relaying from (e.g. example.com.) You create a map file to map “user@example.com” to “user-example@outlook.com and Postfix will do the rest.
Point your MX record for example.com to an A record that points to your Linode’s IP address and away you go!
Thanks for your reply.
Any good web interface to configure Postfix ?
I'm not the one who will be adding emails redirections so I need something simple.
You write:
Any good web interface to configure Postfix ?
I'm not the one who will be adding emails redirections so I need something simple.
No…not that I'm aware of. I'm a postfix(1) user too…and having spent my time in sendmail(1) purgatory…I can echo @andysh's sentiments…
It's pretty easy to set up postfix(1) and get it working with a simple configuration. If you don't want to do anything, you can just forward emails to @hotmail, @gmail, @outlook, etc as you suggested.
-- sw