How to Do Email Forwarding From a Web Form

 

Email forwarding is when one
email account is forwarded
to another:

Here are some of the advantages
of email forwarding:

1. When you change email addresses,
   you can forward the old email address
   to the new email address
2. If you have more than one email
   address, you can forward all email
   to one email address
3. Form mail can be received
   at an email account native to
   the website form but then forwarded
   to a non-native email account.

What is a native email account? It
is youremail@yourdomain.com.
What is a non-native email account? It
is youremail@someoneelsesdomain.com.

See the difference? A native account
has your domain name included in the email
addresss. A non-native account has
a domain name other than your domain
name included in the email address.

By definition, a Gmail account is a
non-native account. By definition,
your.name@gmail.com is non-native.
That is, unless you own the domain name
gmail.com. Nobody does. It's
a corporate name owned by Google.

Corporate domain names are non-native
and the domain name that you personally
own is native. Why ami I making such
a big deal about this?

I'm making a big deal about it because
it can make the difference between
getting your form to work and not having
it work. At many hosting companies, sending
your email form to a non-native email account
is not allowed.

It's a form of spam protection. By disallowing
non-native email accounts, the web hosting
company protects themselves from being used
as a spam relay.

It's hard to relay spam if the only place the
spam ever goes to is the domain name that
is native to your website and not any
other place. That's not much of a coup
for a spammer.

More later.

Ed Abbott