Gmail for domains AND owner server email?

[leebow]

Hi guys,

We use gmail for our domain email - so: [e-mail] are read and sent to gmail.

Is it possible to also use squirrel mail or other email clients on the server itself - so [e-mail] goes to our server email.

Or is this not possible?

If it is possible, is it difficult to set up?

We are trying to create an email for the server to send “welcome/reset password emails. Hoping to use phpmailer to send smtp email using our own server instead of using external mail providers.

Php Mail() itself is being blocked by hotmail/live.

I didn’t want to use a 3rd party email company - when we have a dedicated server with our own IP and own the actual domain name the mail is coming from.

Thanks for the help.

[phranque]

you can set up forwarding of incoming email for an email address or even do this based on a filter in gmail.
however i don't think you can configure a dns to use a different smtp server for one email address on a domain and a different server for the others.

the easiest solution would probably be to use another domain for the signup process and configure the dns to use your server - example-signup.com for example.

Php Mail() itself is being blocked by hotmail/live.

if you are setting up your own server for sending email you should make sure you are CAN-SPAM-compliant and that you have DKIM and SPF properly configured.

even so it may be a losing battle.

you should refer to the policies of each of the major providers for additional clues to success.
for example:
(Outlook.com Postmaster) Policies, Practices, and Guidelines [postmaster.live.com]
(Gmail Help) Bulk Senders Guidelines [support.google.com]
(YAHOO! Help) Bulk email industry standards and best practices [help.yahoo.com]