Hi all. Couldn't find anything on this posted, so a question. I use zoneedit for a few of my domains that I wish to have an email address for (for public consumption at least), i.e. mydomain.com has an email webmaster@mydomain.com, example.net has info@example.net, and so on. I can then go in at zoneedit and 'mail forward' these to gmail, hotmail, etc accounts as needed. This saves me the trouble of managing my own mail server.

I imagine this is a special feature of zoneedit, but am wondering if this is in anyway possible through the linode interface, without hosting my own dns. Also, registrar godaddy offers similar dns, wondering if anyone knows off-hand if they have any mail forwarding capabilities.

Thanks!

It's not ZoneEdit specific, it's pretty common......but since Linode is a place for people who want to run their own servers it's not something they offer, and I don't expect to see it in the future.I'm guessing you meant to say mail server, not DNS here. If you want to forward mail for a domain you're using Linode's DNS for, you basically have three options:

1) Run a mail server. It's really not that hard if you only want to accept mail for a few addresses and forward it somewhere else. Postfix is, in my opinion, especially easy to set up for this and has a plethora of how-tos available on the subject.

2) Google Apps for your Domain. It's kind of overkill, but it is pretty easy to set up and it's free.

3) There are several companies that will handle low volumes of email for free and larger volumes for a small cost. I have never used these services, so I don't have any names for you, but that's what Google is for.I don't know if GoDaddy has mail forwarding. I do know that they suck something awful. I used GoDaddy for years because their registrations were cheap. I eventually came to my senses and realized I'd rather pay a little more to avoid their crap. If you have a high tolerance for advertising and upselling shenanigans, you can save a little cash with GoDaddy, but otherwise, stay away. Stay far, far away.

I've used http://www.rollernet.us and http://www.dyndns.org in the past with good results for this sort of thing.

Alternatively Google Apps or Live Domains are a more heavy duty solution.