How-to: Setting up a forwarded e‑mail address on Google Domains

This blog needs an e-mail: well it doesn't really, but I want it to have one.

E-mail addresses can be set up via most domain registrars' control panels (presumably as the cost of supplying an e-mail service is minimal) and Google Domains is not an exception in this. Two options are provided: a full suite of apps aimed at business users called Google Workspace, provided on a monthly subscription basis, or basic e-mail forwarding, which is free.

The free option is all that I require at the moment, so let's follow the steps in that last link.

First sign in to Google Domains: this will be automatic if you're already logged in to Google, otherwise log in to Google and follow the link to your Domains control panel.

Next click on the domain name that you want to set up e-mail forwarding on,

and select Email in the command list that comes up. If the menu options are not visible then click on Main menu (☰ at top left-hand side).

Under Email forwarding, select Add email alias.

Then enter the Alias email address (ie the one you want to be forwarded) and the Existing recipient email address (ie the address where you want the mail to go to) and click Add.

Finally send a test e-mail to the address that you have set up to be forwarded and wait for it to appear in the in-box (or junk folder) of your destination email address.

And that's it.

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