Email forwarding question

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I have my email forwarded to my gmail from my domain which is hosted by fasthostingdirect. If they go belly up, will my emails still be forwarded to me? I don't know if the address forwarding information is actually on their servers or if it's on same database at Nominet.

I am worried that if they happened to go out of business one day, none of my emails will be forwarded anymore, and I will have to go round changing my email address at loads of places.

Isn't there some way to use GoogleMail as the mail forwarder? I think I looked at that some time ago.
 
Who hosts fasthostingdirect's mail servers and DNS? Themselves?

If so then you will more than likely lose the forward as it will be forwarding on the mail server end or through some sort of contact redirection. Without their mail server being up to receive the original mail it can't then forward it on.

I'm sure Google host people's email these days. Not done it before but probably very straight forward, I would google it from here.
 
I see, thanks, I thought that was the case. I think there is a way I can go edit the DNS record at fasthostingdirect to point at a gmail mail server. I was looking at it a while ago but got nervous about editing the settings without really knowing what I was doing. I will look at it again. Just nervous about relying on a small company to forward all my mail. If something happens to them, there may be emails sent which never reach me.
 
That is why you can set backup priorities on MX records so if your primary mail server goes down you can have it delivered to another one. I would look into Gmail hosting your email though, their mail service is pretty decent and their uptime isn't bad. Might cost money though, not sure.

Would be happy to help and answer questions, email in trust.
 
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