eMail forward on a domain that is not forwarded... - answers needed ASAP

[draggar]

I won't get into the *ahem* person who did this but someone decided to do a big marketing campaign for an organization I manage their website for - and made a big mistake that no one caught.

I have their site set up and hosted on, let's say, Domain1. But in all their advertising they used Domain2 - which is fine since Domain2 is a shortened and frequently used acronym for Domain1. The issue is that the person who did this marketing used Domain2 for the email address (instead of Domain1).

Is there a way to set up an email forward for Domain2 that forwards to Domain1? What are my other options? Can I set up a hosting account on Domain2 and have it forwards (though .htaccess or something?) to Domain1 so I can still have email addresses for Domain2?

 

[Johnn]

Setup a hosting for Domain2 and there should be an option from Cpanel which allows you to forward the email address.

 

[draggar]

I know about that but do you think there is a way to forward the domain from cpanel to Domain1?

 

[Johnn]

Forwarding the domain and forwarding the email address are 2 different things.
Email addresses have to be defined AFTER you setup the hosting. There are some domains have hosting but have NO email address.

 

[draggar]

I know - and now you see my dilemma.

If I set up hosting for Domain2 then I can have the email forward but not the domain forward to the site.

If I don't have hosting I can keep the domain forward but no email hosting.

 

[Johnn]

You can set up email and hosting for the domain2 and forward the domain2 to domain1.

Make sure they fire the marketing guy/gal when you are done.

 

[Johnn]

http://www.wikihow.com/Redirect-a-URL

 

[draggar]

Ah, didn't realize cPanel also has a domain forwarding option built in.

 

[Jack Gordon]

cPanel does it all

This should not be hard to fix at all.

 

[draggar]

I have the domain pointed to the hosting account and have a meta tag to redirect (plus a message to click on the link if the redirect doesn't work).

I have the "wrong" email address now forwarded to the "correct" but I'm wondering about a catch-all now, the acronym may be accidentally typed in a lot.

 

[Johnn]

catch-all now= if you are ready to catch SPAM

 

[draggar]

It should't be that bad and I can set up another email address to catch them all and go though them before sending them off to the people.

 

[Jack Gordon]

cPanel gives you the ability to create a catch all and direct it anywhere you want.

I am pretty sure there is also a way to automatically forward any email to its counterpart on a different domain (i.e. if domain #1 is abc.com and domain #2 is def.com, [email protected] would automatically forward to [email protected]). It has been a while since I had to think about that, but if you look it shouldn't be too hard to find.