Emails sent before hosting set up

[UKSBD]

Assuming I have registered a domain, set up hosting and set up an email today.

If I sent an email to the new address yesterday, would it receive the email?

 

[ukwebhosting]

Assuming I have registered a domain, set up hosting and set up an email today.

If I sent an email to the new address yesterday, would it receive the email?

Hi

If the domain was not registered yesterday when you sent the email then the email will not arrive.

 

[UKSBD]

Hi

If the domain was not registered yesterday when you sent the email then the email will not arrive.

Thanks,

If the domain is registered, hosting set up but email address not set up would it make any difference?

Edit to add: if domain registered and hosting set up the day before sending the email

 

[ukwebhosting]

Thanks,

If the domain is registered, hosting set up but email address not set up would it make any difference?

Edit to add: if domain registered and hosting set up the day before sending the email

Hi

In that instance it would be a hard bounce of address doesn’t exist.

That would not trigger any sort of retry from the sending server.

Thanks

 

[ukwebhosting]

Hi

In that instance it would be a hard bounce of address doesn’t exist.

That would not trigger any sort of retry from the sending server.

Thanks

The only possible chance would be if you had a catch all setup.

This would redirect all emails to anything@the domain to usually in the case of cPanel hosting the email account for the username of the cPanel account.

If it is cPanel log into the cPanel account and go to email accounts and click check mail for the username mail account to drop into webmail and you may find it there.

Good luck!

 

[Andy-UK]

Assuming I have registered a domain, set up hosting and set up an email today.

If I sent an email to the new address yesterday, would it receive the email?

No.
Unless you had an email security server in place that would queue email until the receiving server came up.

 

[annabelleme]

Assuming I have registered a domain, set up hosting and set up an email today.

If I sent an email to the new address yesterday, would it receive the email?

No, the email sent to your new address yesterday would not be received. Email delivery relies on the domain's DNS settings being properly configured and propagated across the internet. When you register a domain and set up hosting, DNS records (such as MX records for mail exchange) are created to route emails to your server.

Since the domain and hosting were set up today, any emails sent before the DNS records were in place would not know where to deliver the messages. Essentially, there would be no destination for the email to be routed to yesterday.

 

[John P Rogers]

No you wouldn't receive it. When you sent it the domain did not exist so it would have been rejected instantly.

 

[mrjohnofee]

If I set up my domain and email today, will an email sent to that address yesterday get through?

 

[fisicx]

Probably not.