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faq:email:why_cant_i_redirect_email_to_free_email_services

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Why can’t I redirect email to free email services?

Redirecting email to Gmail, Yahoo mail, Hotmail, etc has been disabled for quite some time now, for us to offer better quality of service on the server email delivery.

All free email service provider controlled their bandwidth and number of email allow from email servers around the world.
Setting redirect means there will be A LOT of email (including spam) redirect from your account to these free services, and could resulting a temporary traffic block on the free email service provider.

This means:

  • you will most likely not going to get the all of redirect email delivered to the free email service provider like gmail, yahoo and hotmail.
  • your email address (or your email server) will be black-listed if the amount of email is over their quota.
  • your email sending to other recipients on these free email address will be degraded too, since your email server will likely under temporary block most of the time.

We hope you understand our intension on such restriction.

Note: If you are using gmail, there is a better way to get the same result by using Gmail's remote POP3 instead.

  1. Login with your Gmail account.
  2. [Go to Settings] → [Accounts and Import].
  3. On “Check mail from other accounts (using POP3)”, click [Add a POP3 mail account you own].
  4. On the pop-up box, key in your email address. Click [Next Step].
  5. Key in your email address on [Username] and your password on [Password].
  6. On [POP server], key in mail.yourdomain.com. Leave the port number at 110.
  7. Remember to check the checkbox [Learn a copy of retrieved message on the server].
  8. Click [Add Account].
  9. Once the account is created, you will be asked whether you want to send email using your user@domain.com email address. Click [No] and select [Finish].
faq/email/why_cant_i_redirect_email_to_free_email_services.1438152756.txt.gz · Last modified: 2015/07/29 14:52 by vikki