How to use your domain for sending group messages: Custom redirects

When you create a group with Gaggle Mail you get a  @gaggle.email  address. That’s great, who wouldn’t want one of those!

But what if you already have your own domain and want to use that for your group email address? That’s where custom domains come in.

How to redirect messages to your domain

For this example, imagine you:

• Run a group called the Tuesday Book Club
• Have the Gaggle Mail address  tuesday-book-club@gaggle.email
• Own the domain tuesday-book-club.com
• Want to start using members@tuesday-book-club.com  as your group's email address

1. Login to your email/hosting provider and create the email address you want to use (for this example it'smembers@tuesday-book-club.com )
2. Set up email forwarding from the email you want to use (members@tuesday-book-club.com ), to your group's Gaggle Mail email address (tuesday-book-club@gaggle.email ). Here are guides for Gmail, Google Apps, Office 365, GoDaddy and others.
3. Login to Gaggle Mail and click the group where you want to redirect messages

4. Click Settings, scroll to Customise and click the Use custom domain toggle:

   

5. Click Edit, add the email address you want to use, click Save:

   

6. Now all emails sent to members@tuesday-book-club.com will go to all group members.
7. The 'from' field will still appear from your groups's @gaggle.email  address (here's why), but you can also change this with a custom domain hosted MX record

When setting up email forwarding, some email providers send a confirmation email to the address you’re forwarding to (in this example it's  tuesday-book-club@gaggle.email ). We attempt to forward this message automatically to your group administrators. If you don't receive this message, let us know and we'll forward it to you manually.