Email forwarding - conflict between existing host and Infinity

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Hello,

I have a domain hosted by Fasthosts currently which includes free email forwarding. If I now what to use Infinity to start to build a website for my domain, Infinity stipulates that they wish to host the domain, but if I do that, it will screw the email forwarding through Fasthosts. Is there a way to resolve this quandary? I am led to believe there is email forwarding with InfinityFree, but I am unable to find where I could set that up. Can anyone point me in the right direction or let me know how I might be able to resolve this problem?

I would be very grateful, this is my first foray into website building.

Many thanks,

Andrew

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Welcome to the fourm @ayoward !

To setup your InfinityFree account, you must change your nameservers. However, once the account creation is complete, you can change the nameservers back to Fasthosts and setup an A record with the IP of your account. Let me know if you don’t understand!

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Alternatively, you can still point the MX records from infinity free vPanel to your old host (Fasthosts).

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Thanks so much for your quick response. Is it just an A record for WWW or can I make an A record without a hostname that would point anything except mailserver for example to my Infinity IP?

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Thank you. I will try this if the A record does not work.

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Unfortunately there is not option to manage the A record at InfinityFree’s vPanel. Please use Cloudflare.

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I can add A record at Fasthosts though to point to Infinity right?

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Umm just pint the domain to the IP assigned to your account. It can be found in the client area!

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If Fasthosts has that functionality, yes. You will need to set two records, one with “@” and one with “www”. They should both point to the IP of your account (Found in the client area)

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