Split EMails Across 2 Servers

[Paul Kelly ICHYB]

I host my own website(s) and they all come with email accounts. I run my main business email through Google (a couple with Zoho).

Is there a way to utilise both my server and Google to manage different email addresses e.g.
my @email.com - Google
mysecond @email.com - Google
mythird @email.com - My server

 

[ServWise]

There are different ways to do what you want, probably the simplest would be to have one server as the MX in DNS receiving all the mail for the domain and then setup forwarding for the email addresses you want at the other server. You then just need to make sure DNS is configured so your other server is also allowed to send from the domain (SPF, DKIM etc)

 

[Paul Kelly ICHYB]

I'll look at that, however,

then setup forwarding for the email addresses you want

There could be several and this would probably entail setting up several new email accounts with Google, with the obvious costs. I could have one catch email, will can then read incoming 'to' addresses?

How would one forward to the other server, if it isn't in the MX records (as they will both be using the same domain)?

 

[ukwebhosting]

I'll look at that, however,


There could be several and this would probably entail setting up several new email accounts with Google, with the obvious costs. I could have one catch email, will can then read incoming 'to' addresses?

How would one forward to the other server, if it isn't in the MX records (as they will both be using the same domain)?

Hi

You could have it all being delivered to your server using individual accounts setup on your server.

Then using google to pickup email from the accounts you want to use in google from your server and then using googles alias feature to reply using the same email address and through your servers smtp

 

[NickGrogan]

subdomains would be easier, surely?

maindomain.com - all emails go to google

my.maindomain.com - all emails go to my server

sp.maindomain.com - all emails go to the support desk saas

and so on

unlimited emails as subdomains don't interact with each other, so you can have paul@main, [email protected] and [email protected] all at once and all going to different places.

 

[Paul Kelly ICHYB]

I was just coming to the subdomain idea, I feel issues in my water when I look at forwarding/collecting messages.

 

[ServWise]

How would one forward to the other server, if it isn't in the MX records (as they will both be using the same domain)?

You would normally set up rules on the MX server (the server configured in DNS to receive email for the domain) to forward specific email address mail when received, sometimes it's configured at the domain level, sometimes is configured at the mail account level, just forward them to the gmail address. Sending as the domain from the gmail server should be okay assuming it allows that, any server can send as any domain as long as they have correctly configured SPF/DKIM etc so that the receiving server accepts that server as a sending server for the domain.

 

[Paul Kelly ICHYB]

I have Google workspace not Gmail. I will look at that control panel to see.if there is any help there.

 

[MilesWeb]

Using the split delivery feature, you can utilize both Google Workspace and your server for managing emails. However, when sending internal emails within your domain, you might encounter some issues.