email hosting by wordpress.com

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  heathenschoir · Member · Apr 20, 2015 at 4:37 am

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  phoenixchoir.org.au

  I just successfully transferred my URL (above) to be hosted by wordpress.com. However, Email does not appear to be hosted by wordpress.com – this is what we want. How do I set this up?

  Once email hosting is set up I already know how to do email redirect etc.

  Thanks .. Tim

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  ariwinokur · Member · Apr 20, 2015 at 4:54 am

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  WordPress.com is a Web hosting service only. You will have to seek out another service to provide email hosting.

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  heathenschoir · Member · Apr 20, 2015 at 5:00 am

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  All I want to do is forward email from {…}@phoenixchoir.org.au. I understood if WordPress.com host phoenixchoir.org.au then I can do that for up to five email addresses. Thats all I want to do.

  How do I set that up?

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  heathenschoir · Member · Apr 20, 2015 at 5:23 am

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  This has now been sorted, thank you.

  WordPress.com assumes that you have existing email hosting and sets up DNS for that presumed email hosting. You have to go into Edit DNS and delete the MX record. Nothing in the instructions tells you to do this. Perhaps the instructions should be updated with this step.

  Thanks

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  justjennifer · Member · Apr 20, 2015 at 5:24 am

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  The best place to start for information is the WP.com Support documentation.

  Here’s what I got when I put “email forwarding” in the search bar
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=email+forwarding