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[Mike <mike AT pikeaero.com>]

Yes, that's the only way I can see it working until more ISPs start
pointing to or becoming OpenNIC resolvers. I guess for the time being
we'll just have to rattle the chains of as many non-compliant email
handlers as we can, and get them to fix their stuff. :)

--Mike

On 02/15/2012 07:04 PM, Alex Hanselka wrote:
> 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
>>>