Using Google Mail and WordPress.com

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    nes49 · Member ·

    I’m just trying to confirm my understanding of how mapped domains and e-mail work together.

    For years, I’ve had mydomain.com registered and hosted at Dreamhost.

    For a new subunit, I set up subgroup.mydomain.com and configured it to use Gmail for mail service. [That’s a feature in the Dreamhost admin panel.]

    Then I decided to host the website at WordPress.com, so the WordPress site is set up as

    mydomainsubgroup.wordpress.com

    and at Dreamhost I’ve reconfigured the domain so that

    subgroup.mydomain.com forwards to mydomainsubgroup.wordpress.com.

    E-mail is working find to addresses like (email visible only to moderators and staff).

    From what I can find, though, if I now decide I’d like to pay the extra to WordPress to have subgroup.mydomain.com be the address for the site, that’s going to break the mail service. I’d need to reconfigure things to put all the mail addresses on something like mail.subgroup.mydomain.com.

    In other words, there’s no way to have subgroup.mydomain.com bring up a WordPress.com site AND have (email visible only to moderators and staff) actually work (with Gmail or whatever).

    Is that all correct?

    TIA

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    teck07 · Member ·

    WordPress FAQ > Domain Mapping » Custom Email with Google Apps

    For future reference it’s not a good idea to post emails because
    the spam bots will ahve a hay day with your email.

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