Custom domain for incoming email

Devon

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Nov 8, 2009, 11:36:42 PM11/8/09

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Hello. I have set up a custom domain for my application with Google
Apps. My application uses the incoming mail service to receive mail.
I would like to receive mail from my domain rather than from
appspotmail.com. For example, I would like my users to be able to
send email to exa...@mydomain.com rather than
exa...@appid.appspotmail.com.

Is this possible? Do I need to change MX records for my domain?

Thanks for the help!
Devon

Wooble

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Nov 9, 2009, 1:23:54 PM11/9/09

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Receiving email at non-appspotmail domains isn't supported; you'll
need to set up forwarding from an email server. If you just want to
forward a limited number of addresses, it's probably easiest to set
them up as accounts in Google Apps, log in to Gmail and forward
messages to whatever appspotmail.com address you want to use.

Setting up MX records won't help; this just tells other sites' mailers
to send the messages to appspotmail's server, where it would have no
idea what to do with them.

On Nov 8, 11:36 pm, Devon <devongov...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello. I have set up a custom domain for my application with Google
> Apps. My application uses the incoming mail service to receive mail.
> I would like to receive mail from my domain rather than from
> appspotmail.com. For example, I would like my users to be able to

> send email to exam...@mydomain.com rather than
> exam...@appid.appspotmail.com.

Devon

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Nov 9, 2009, 4:37:40 PM11/9/09

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I need to be able to receive any email sent to my domain with my
google app engine app. For example I need to be able to forward email
from exa...@mydomain.com to exa...@appid.appspotmail.com, as well as
te...@mydomain.com to te...@appid.appspotmail.com, etc. I can set up a
"catch-all" address in Google Apps, and forward mail, but the address
to forward to is different depending on who it was sent to originally.

Anyone have any idea how to do this? There must be apps that people
run on App Engine that are able to do this?

Devon

Andrey Petrov

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Nov 10, 2009, 12:10:42 AM11/10/09

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Forward all emails to one address (catchall), and in appengine just
read the TO field, which will have the correct address it was sent to
(even though it was redirected to a different address initially).

On Nov 9, 1:37 pm, Devon <devongov...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to be able to receive any email sent to my domain with my
> google app engine app. For example I need to be able to forward email

> from exam...@mydomain.com to exam...@appid.appspotmail.com, as well as
> t...@mydomain.com to t...@appid.appspotmail.com, etc. I can set up a

Nick Johnson (Google)

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Nov 10, 2009, 6:01:49 AM11/10/09

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Hi Devon,

App Engine does not currently support receiving email from custom domains directly.

Various companies offer services that will redirect your mail for you, however. dyndns and zoneedit both provide such services and are worth a look.

-Nick Johnson

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Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine
Google Ireland Ltd. :: Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration Number: 368047

Nick K

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Mar 29, 2011, 10:53:58 AM3/29/11

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Anybody know how to configure the forwarding yourself, or to set up a Linux mail service to just call a web script itself? I'd hate to have to turn to a 3rd party to do this...