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Suleiman Leadbitter
15,805 PointsHosting on Github pages with own domain but my own email is not working
Hi,
I have converted my website using Jekyll now and started using the hosting at Github Pages. Previously I was using Dreamhost. I set up my email a while back on Dreamhost but it goes through Google apps. I assumed it would still work but I just realised that I not been getting any email through since to move.
So the question is really, whilst hosting on Github Pages with a custom domain how do I get my email me@mydomain.com to work.
Many thanks
Sul
2 Answers
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsAre you keeping Dreamhost for your email?
Suleiman Leadbitter
15,805 PointsAll sorted now thanks to Dreamhost, Namecheap and Kevin :)
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsCool! Good to hear!
Suleiman Leadbitter
15,805 PointsSuleiman Leadbitter
15,805 PointsI do still have Dreamhost hosting but can I use that for email even though the domain is redirected to GitHub?
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsKevin Korte
28,149 PointsYes you can, or possibly Google apps. To be honest, I'm only vaguely familiar with google apps. But the gist of this is you'll need to set up records so that computers go to your github pages, and mx records will point mail traffic to your mail server (Google apps/Dreamhost). You may need to talk to your DNS provider support about properly setting up the records to do so, but I do know it can be done.
Have done something similar in the past for a company. They had their site and mail server on one, and decided to move their site to a company who builds and maintains sites, but they retained their server for the email side. We had to add records though to point mail traffic to the old server, not to the server the site was hosted on.