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[Alex Hanselka <alex AT hanselka.name>]

I believe what the idea is is as follows...

email to "purrdeta AT domain.free"@icanndomain.com
will be received by "icanndomain.com" and then forwarded on to 
purrdeta AT domain.free.  The problem with that is that even though 
"something AT something.com"@someotherplace.com is an RFC and a standard, 
many places do not respect that or have some sort of arcane check for 
email validity that would fail.



On 2/15/2012 4:41 PM, Mike wrote:
> 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