Redirect email using DNS?

Question

I own a custom domain, i.e myself.com. I would like to make all email sent to [email protected] to be delivered to [email protected]. I do not want to use Google's Google Apps, or Microsoft's Live Admins. Is this possible using DNS only?

Solution 1

No, it is not. You can only designate WHICH SERVER handles ALL emails for a domain, nothing else.

You can not rewrite the email, nor forward only specific addresses.

Solution 2

Hotmail is the same as Microsoft Live, so you could do this by setting up custom domains to accept mail via an additional domain, and then create an alias for [email protected]. Mail sent to [email protected] or [email protected] will end up in the same mailbox.

DNS has no part in email redirection. MX records in DNS just specify which servers handle mail for a given domain.

Comments

[joeqwerty]

What exactly is a "custom" domain? How is myself.com different from any other domain that makes it "custom"?

[itaysk]

It is not. by custom I mean not gmail.com\Hotmail.com. this is how it is referred by in Google apps.

[itaysk]

This is exactly what I was looking for, but I thought it was possible w\o third parties. Thanks anyway for the relevant answer.