How do I configure “advanced” or “dynamic” email forwarding for my domain? [closed]

Question

I bought a domain, and I'd like to to setup some "advanced" email forwarding. Let's say they send an email to something@mydomain.com. What I'd ideally like it to do is take and append it to my gmail address as such: mygmail+something@gmail.com

That way I can sign up for let's say craigslist and do craigslist@mydomain.com. That email gets forwarded to mygmail+craigslist@gmail.com I have no idea how that would be done or what I need in order to do that. I figure it's possible because Craigslist and other sites have dynamic email forwarding as well.

Answer 1

You might start by checking with your registrar. Most include DNS management and also include or can provide domain-email forwarding - which can accomplish what you described.

Answer 2

Rethink of what you are trying to accomplish.

1. Google does not allow aliases for your mail. So you can't have multiple Google-Addresses under one account.
2. If you have a domain and want all mails in Gmail, so why don't you use Google Apps to manage your mails under your domain?
3. Why don't you manage your mails with the platform your registrar already provides?

Answer 3

Email forwarding options will depend on your host. For example, with a particular godaddy domain, I just forward everything to gmail, use a gmail filter to tag anything from said domain & toss it in a folder for that purpose. You can get fancy with nothing but more detailed filtering criteria.

All you need in that case is a simple forward (any provider should be able to manage this) and gmail's own tools.