Directing email for a domain to AppEngine email receiving service?

Question

I'd like to have emails to a given domain, say http://mydomain.com/, processed by an AppEngine app, let's call it http://emailprocessor.appspot.com/ .

That is, an email to "[email protected]" should be received and processed by emailprocessor.appspot.com as if it was an email to "[email protected]" .

I imagine I could do this via MX records for my mydomain.com domain, but I can't find instructions anywhere.

Is this possible, and if so does one set it up?

Answer 1

Also there is no direct support for this according to documentation

BUT

if your http://mydomain.com/ hosted on google apps and you create user [email protected] as gmail account and in it configure email forwarding rule to the "[email protected]" it should work as it works for any general gmail account email forwarding. It preserves original headers like sender etc.

I almost sure that most of other mail services or servers can support this feature. check documentation of your mail service.

PAY ATTENTION! it must be emailprocessor.appspotmail.com note the appspotmail.com not appspot.com

I did not try it myself yet so I will be happy if you confirm that this works. Again it should.

Answer 2

What I have done is to point the MX record to a server that allows you to do email domain forwarding. Then you can forward all emails to emailprocessor.appspotmail.com.

The advantage of this is that you catch all usernames: [email protected], [email protected], etc...

If your host has cPanel see this: http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/email/email_domain_forwarding.htm