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[Mike <mike AT pikeaero.com>]

Yes, that is the tricky part since an email client who is running on a
host which is not pointing to an OpenNIC resolver has no way to locate
an A record for rambleonrose.indy never mind an MX record.

Yeah, I don't know if you're going to be able to do that at all?!  You
would have to somehow attach an MX record for ramblonrose.indy to a
domain that is visible from the ICANN namespace, but then how do you get
the email sender to resolve that if it just knows ramblonrose.indy?!

It's a tough one.

--Mike

On 02/15/2012 12:56 PM, Hans Sussenburger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First off, my thanks to Julian for his help in getting me set up and
> started on OpenNic.
> Exchanging email between two OpenNic domain accounts works just fine, and
> sending from my OpenNic account "tennessee.jed AT rambleonrose.indy" to any
> ICANN account is easy too.
> 
> What turned out to be a bit more tricky, as expected, was to send, for
> example, from hans.sussenburger AT gmail.com to tennessee.jed AT rambleonrose.indy
> .
> I would be interested to hear what you guys are doing to get this to work
> :-).
> For my part, I set up a forwarding system with a demo version of
> SmartPOP2Exchange (by JAM Software GmbH) like this:
> 1) I set up a mailbox "tennesseejed-rambleonrose.indy AT sussenburger.com"
> 2) I installed SmartPOP2Exchange on my machine at home and configured it to
> pull the contents of the "jed" account and forward any mail it to
> tennessee.jed AT rambleonrose.indy
> While this is not fully satisfying, the non-techies in my household are
> quite attached to the email manifestation of their domain :-).
> 
> Let me know what you think, and especially if you have something better,
>  Hans
>