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Re:Google seems to have broken email forwarding by blfr on Thursday March 05, 2015 @11:02AM (#9151491)
I did read the article and that's exactly what he's doing. He forwards everything to Gmail, and then allows users to send from Gmail via his SMTP server (or maybe doing some spoofing but it wouldn't look so clean). Essentially outsourcing hosting of inboxes (but just inboxes) to Gmail.

I run my own mail server, but most of my employees use Gmail. So I have forwarding set up: [email protected] simply forwards to [email protected]. When sending mail using their Gmail account, they set their From line to [email protected]. (Google lets you do this if you jump through some hoops to verify that you can actually receive mail at that account.)

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Re:Google seems to have broken email forwarding by protomyth on Thursday March 05, 2015 @11:08AM (#9151549)
And that is the description for a fairly normal "forward all my mail to my personal inbox" scenario. Its not rocket science and it is not using gmail as his backend. We do it with part-time faculty.
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Re:Google seems to have broken email forwarding by karlshea on Thursday March 05, 2015 @11:21AM (#9151667)
You are misunderstanding what is happening. He is not using Gmail, his employees are.
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Re:Google seems to have broken email forwarding by blfr on Thursday March 05, 2015 @11:26AM (#9151709)
Those are Gmail accounts belonging to his employees but he is using them in the back of his mail setup instead of hosting @dnalounge.com inboxes himself (or paying Google to).
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Re:Google seems to have broken email forwarding by rottingchris on Thursday March 05, 2015 @11:43AM (#9151852)
He doesn't use them. His employees chose to forward their email because they want to use the same interface for both their work and personal email. He does host @dnalounge.com inboxes.
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